On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:53 -0500, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > We have received *numerous* complaints from users about the decision to
> > remove stage 1 and 2 from the installation documentation.  I realize it's
> > still available if users are willing to dig for it, but not all users do.
> > 
> > In my years of monitoring www@gentoo.org, we've received the most
> > complaints about this decision than any other single decision.  Is there a
> > way we can re-introduce the stages into the installation documentation,
> > perhaps with gigantic warnings saying, "for advanced users only" or "use at
> > your own risk"?
> 
> Well, if we could educate the users that stage2 tarballs are totally 
> pointless, and that running bootstrap.sh followed by emerge -e system 
> from a stage3 is pretty much *exactly* the same as starting a stage1 
> from scratch...

It isn't pretty much anymore.  It *is* exactly the same.

> To me, the email from that user sounds like the typical vocal minority 
> of users who make "screw common sense in favor of choice" complaints 
> whenever we change something for the better.

Exactly.

It sounds like we are letting ourselves be swayed by a few heated words
from someone who is obviously shooting for a reaction.

If we give in, the terrorists have won.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux