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 1JDmpm-0001ET-Pd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:20:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6ED8BE027D; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A65E01FB for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506CF65888 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.872 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.872 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.687, BAYES_40=-0.185] 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 GR1oUFoQnPIa for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:27 +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 6E4F56589E for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JDmp3-0005ok-Ln for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:17 +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 ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:17 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by 84-72-87-192.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead? Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:19:07 +0100 Message-ID: <13195354.O1qSiJCAAd@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> References: <200801111038.08071.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <4787432B.1050902@smash-net.org> <1305130.335MG8fpnU@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> <4787C145.8030900@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: 75f3bdb4-07df-4749-97ce-1f6829984517 X-Archives-Hash: 283e6dc56f70cdb2738d50061ad23af8 =C2=B7 Norman Rie=C3=9F : > Michael Schmarck schrieb: >> =C2=B7 Norman Rie=C3=9F : >> >> =20 >>> Right, basicly telling people "You have to depend on / use other dist= ros >>> to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don=C2=B4t have time to= provide >>> this" sounds a little fishy. It makes Gentoo look incomplete. >>> =20 >> >> Well, but providing outdated (ie. non-usable for new systems) install >> medium is also very bad. And if the installer doesn't work (satisfacto= ry), >> then that gives an even worse impression. >> >> Michael Schmarck >> =20 > I agree. > And i don't think that this is contradicting my statement, does it? Depends. You're saying, that Gentoo might look to be incomplete, if it were to rely on other distributions (Live CDs). I'm saying, that it currently already looks to be incomplete, despite there being a install CD - a CD, which is outdated. Michael Schmarck --=20 You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list