Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 13 January 2008, Norman Rieß wrote:
> I have installed Gentoo in many ways, the old UniversalCD, the
> LiveCD, others Distros LiveCD's, from a working Gentooinstallation to
> a usb-connected drive which was transferred to boot in a old laptop
> and so on. But i still think a Gentoo-Install-CD/DVD is a good thing.
> So your statement "The users around here pushing the idea to have an
> install CD just do not get it, and are probably *not*able* to think
> out the box." is clearly not bulletproof.

You miss my point. 

The thread is about users insisting that Gentoo must have an installer 
because "how else would one install Gentoo?" which is patently not 
true.

My comment was to highlight that people who don't see the truth of that 
probably can't think out the box. I didn't pull this comment out my ass 
either, it's based on several hundred observations of me personally, in 
face-to-face situations, explaining to people how a typical Linux 
install process works and observing how many get it and how many don't.

Please don't respond to my posts in isolation, treating them as 10 
second sound bites. They are in a thread, and part of a larger context.

If you want a Gentoo installer then by all means go ahead and make one. 
Or you can pay someone to make one for you. That is how FLOSS works 
after all.

But is not justifiable to make the creation of such an installer a 
top-priority for Gentoo, as such a thing ALREADY EXISTS. It just 
doesn't have a Gentoo "G" logo on it.

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Alan McKinnon
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