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 1EebjA-0000gx-PB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:14:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMHE3is023690; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:14:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMHCFXJ006894 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:12:16 GMT Received: from cp237988-a.mill1.nb.home.nl ([84.29.235.69] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1Eebgl-0005HV-Ax for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:12:16 +0000 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:12:34 +0100 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation Message-ID: <20051122171234.GA4780@gentoo.org> References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <438330E1.2000804@gentoo.org> <1132672527.27288.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20051122161955.GA15198@halffull.org> <1132677570.27288.46.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1132677570.27288.46.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 596ba40e-c67c-4503-b584-d8c5b00b633f X-Archives-Hash: e03b9c12926fcd35ea0ed70732b16e17 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:39:29AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Another "Gentoo is about choice" argument. Can I ask you something? > Where does it say that Gentoo is about choice? I see lots of places > that say that Gentoo allows you to customize, but nowhere do I see > anything that says that we are about choice. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1 "About the Gentoo Linux Installation Users not familiar with Gentoo do not always know that choice is what Gentoo is all about." And following that link: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=1 "Welcome! First of all, welcome to Gentoo. You are about to enter the world of choices and performance. Gentoo is all about choices. When installing Gentoo, this is made clear to you several times -- you can choose how much you want to compile yourself, how to install Gentoo, what system logger you want, etc. Gentoo is a fast, modern metadistribution with a clean and flexible design. Gentoo is built around free software and doesn't hide from its users what is beneath the hood. Portage, the package maintenance system which Gentoo uses, is written in Python, meaning you can easily view and modify the source code. Gentoo's packaging system uses source code (although support for precompiled packages is included too) and configuring Gentoo happens through regular textfiles. In other words, openness everywhere. It is very important that you understand that choices are what makes Gentoo run. We try not to force you onto anything you don't like. If you feel like we do, please bugreport it." (Note that I'm not going to argue either way whether this is a good thing; I'm merely pointing out that the docs do say we're about choice.) --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDg1GCwnQyISwouHwRAh4mAKDCXhnjeJeijOfPBD0uqZJI5bbi2gCfVl9r W/5S0XyvXWIEgjxdw5Nssms= =jm31 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list