Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2009, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote:
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones
"show stopper" list of Gentoo defects. Gentoo doesn't *need* an
installer and all previous attempts at one have been less than
successful. We can all certainly get along fine without one.
But can you really provide a non-condescending, *rational* argument
explaining why it would be an actively detrimental idea to have a working
installer for Gentoo? Why, if some person appeared tomorrow with a fully
functional, debugged, tested, flexible, easy to use,
fully-handbook-compliant, *optional* drop-in installation process, why
that would be a bad thing?
I would still think its a problema.
People would install Gentoo, get a functional system, not read the
handbook, and flood the forums and this mailing list with already
answered and handbook questions. The installer would only benefit the
more experienced user that would get an unattended installation, and
yet, experienced users tend to customize their systems, so, no
installer would help them.
exactly. Installer = not reading documentation = epic failure waiting to
happen
Each time I read this, it occurs to me that you are
seriously confusing "reading the documentation" with
"understanding the documentation."
The number of people who manage to parrot the handbook
instructions into a bash prompt, get Gentoo up, then do
absolutely idiotic things to break it that show up on IRC
should be proof enough that just reading the handbook does
not a Gentoo expert make.
