From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EeZTO-0003cJ-0x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:50:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMEnZji028147; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:49:35 GMT Received: from sole.infis.univ.trieste.it (sole.infis.univ.trieste.it [140.105.134.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMElnIP011208 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:47:49 GMT Received: from sole.infis.univ.trieste.it (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sole.infis.univ.trieste.it (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAMEbhdj020623 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:37:43 +0100 Received: (from lcars@localhost) by sole.infis.univ.trieste.it (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jAMEbhgh020622 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:37:43 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:37:43 +0100 From: Andrea Barisani To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation Message-ID: <20051122143743.GV5305@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> X-GPG-Key: 0x864C9B9E X-GPG-Fingerprint: 0A76 074A 02CD E989 CE7F AC3F DA47 578E 864C 9B9E User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: a762cffb-a76c-4880-b5b6-b2ba9d46b5cd X-Archives-Hash: c0095f8b536354856d4166039e68debd On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:47:45PM +0000, 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"? > > --kurt > I perfectly agree with this request, we should provide the choice and clear point that out (along with all the correlated risks) instead of simply "hiding" the option. And I sincerely hope there's no intention to remove stage1/stage2 tarballs in the future because that would be a really a bad thing imho. Cheers -- Andrea Barisani .*. Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Developer V ( ) PGP-Key 0x864C9B9E http://dev.gentoo.org/~lcars/pubkey.asc ( ) 0A76 074A 02CD E989 CE7F AC3F DA47 578E 864C 9B9E ^^_^^ "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list