From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDPH2-0003Pr-7M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF009E0AF6; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392A1E0AEB for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA2265178 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.299 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.299 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.300, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wzyaRU-8Rcag for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED9E6527A for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JDPGF-0000uN-N5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:47 +0000 Received: from 84-72-87-192.dclient.hispeed.ch ([84.72.87.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:47 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by 84-72-87-192.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:09:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1305130.335MG8fpnU@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> References: <200801111038.08071.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <4787432B.1050902@smash-net.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-72-87-192.dclient.hispeed.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 235e00c0-c90e-47a3-8ad9-6aa9a63bccf1 X-Archives-Hash: 04bd5ce625873b788a9bab695dea0774 =C2=B7 Norman Rie=C3=9F : > Right, basicly telling people "You have to depend on / use other distro= s > to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don=C2=B4t have time to p= rovide > this" sounds a little fishy. It makes Gentoo look incomplete. Well, but providing outdated (ie. non-usable for new systems) install medium is also very bad. And if the installer doesn't work (satisfactory)= , then that gives an even worse impression. Michael Schmarck --=20 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list