On Sunday 05 April 2009 00:11:08 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > 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. > > Aside from this being exactly what I meant by condescending, > I don't find "if there was an installer then stupid people > would use it" to be a convincing argument.
Then try this one: There is no installer (after the fashion of a binary distro installer) as the very idea is horribly broken. All attempts to make one have resulted in a horrible unmaintainable mess and caused more grief on support channels than they were worth - creating the very thing they were designed to prevent. In other words: Installers are a bloody stupid idea. Get over it. There is such a thing as a prerequisite level of expertise. Every field has this and every field SHOULD enforce it. You don't get to drive a car on a public road till you have proven that you have learned how to drive a car, and you don't learn how on public roads. Why is gentoo any different, and why is it every time this thread comes up we get flooded with the idea that we must entertain stupid people? It's not elitist, it's a simple fact of life. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
