From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:25:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075148723.16718.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075148528.5319.7.camel@rivendell>
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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:22, foser wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 06:35, Eric Sammer wrote:
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gentoo_installer_project.txt
> >
> > Please take a look and share any constructive comments and suggestions.
>
> Besides the fact that the document disregards most of the discussion
> here on the D&R list so far concerning an installer. It -in my opinion-,
> like most other installer projects (except pen2), describes an installer
> that is a full replacement for the current installation process, which i
> think shoots way beyond the target audience of an installer.
I think the reason a lot of people switch to Gentoo is what they hear
about the customizability and flexibility. If we take that away from
them in the first thing they do (using the installer), they might decide
Gentoo wasn't such a good idea after all.
Donnie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 5:35 [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 9:57 ` dams
2004-01-26 10:58 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 14:16 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:07 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 13:37 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:11 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:19 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:20 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-28 11:55 ` dams
2004-01-26 11:10 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 14:33 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 17:48 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 20:15 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:21 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:27 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:22 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-26 20:30 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:22 ` foser
2004-01-26 20:25 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2004-01-26 20:37 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 22:41 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-27 0:05 ` Scott Koch
2004-01-27 6:07 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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