Isn't it intuitive anyways to have the programs selected to be added to use
flags? it just makes sense wether or not someone reads the manual

On 2/28/06, LinuxMan <linuxman@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> What sort of attitude is that to tempt new users to Gentoo, or anyone for
> that matter. Surely the installer should be aiming to make installation
> not
> just easier but also easier and better than the rest. Otherwise what's the
> point? If that's your attitude you might as well not bothered with the
> installer and just told everyone to read the manual instead!! I think
> Norman
> has a valid point and your answer doesn't do his question justice. I'm
> concerned that there are potential new users who could add to Gentoo, who
> are going elsewhere because of confusing options and attitudes that don't
> help anyone.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:agaffney@gentoo.org]
> Sent: 28 February 2006 16:00
> To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux
> Installer
>
>
> Simon Stelling wrote:
> > Norman Rieß wrote:
> >> But see it with the eyes of a random Gentoo beginner.
> >> You come to the "USE Flags" screen seeing some settings. You think
> "That
> >> are surely some nice settings. Otherwise they wouldn´t be set as
> default".
> >> But then you choose KDE. Now you have a KDE system with "+gnome -kde"
> as
> >> USE Flags.
> >
> > If people are not willing to read documentation, that's their fault.
> Being
> a
> > newbie or a sysadmin++, it doesn't matter.
>
> You took the words from my mouth.
>
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