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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I785E-0003cp-3c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:04:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l67B2Hx9022699; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:02:17 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l67AusDW015140 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:56:54 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E178C2082F2 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:56:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE312082F0 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:56:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.10) with ESMTPSA id 24696617 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:56:53 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:56:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <49bf44f10707030907jaa9f524maef27beb2a7c9df@mail.gmail.com> <468E802C.1030203@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707071256.51232.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 0ff1258e-e7ce-412f-abc1-dc46c6878644 X-Archives-Hash: fb49cd00ddcfc5bdc862951c0caaa7f5 On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the > > liveCD > > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I > > can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've heard so much > > about" and be done with it. > > The irony here is that gentoo has had the live cd for a long time which > makes installing so much easier, but just won't go that extra step > because...it's supposed to be hard? If it's "supposed" to be hard, why > have the live cd? seems contrary. > well, hard filters out the 'I am stupid and I don't read documentation' crowd, which is a good thing. I would not call the installation via graphical installer 'hard', I would call it 'buggy beyond usefullness'. Apart from that, IMHO a livecd is completly braindead. When compiling you need as much free ram as you can get. Every mb counts. And a livecd takes away A LOT of ram. Even more stupid - a livecd with gnome (which is the DE with the biggest ram usage). So we have a livecd, which is stupid in itself, for installing and a buggy installer - only because to prevent some idiots from reading the documentation. Is that really smart? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list