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 1LV2wj-0007az-Ap for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:03:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C1BDE058F; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f18.google.com (mail-ew0-f18.google.com [209.85.219.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA8FE058F for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy11 with SMTP id 11so128755ewy.10 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:03:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Ee/whfB2AEX5JSuBX5Zfn+m/YYH60e2ayjO5dJOzcJw=; b=PyTwbkT4ZHAv5J6OqDS6tmt8qifn+SIU2vKtJ1bwt2pqMFLFtzVOn8wnLMyr3t0v6C 9+1iQjNT8aSSc3BGPo2xglTkwKLpu2IkLutOQcW0hqMkV3qXideX+t/geIUB9aC9V9vt /2kyMS5x39RR1+jhaYYesXFjiTxsS5TxMo7lE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=dW8lhsjXCfJtEp5S4YWsnGEcRMeWkKk6rOAi8oz2MyTe1hUtFxWbF9rUuscgq+MEE5 /zNdWHQR51/yjnJ0NvXO0mNT6ZccYNfTMTzA3QNBnfxHQPJ4p3IhY8GDiBw3Dtdu5ZHz 2tKqVubhpFsv3QLjly0tE0GDbyfB7vQsUXjnU= Received: by 10.210.92.8 with SMTP id p8mr340961ebb.6.1233835382873; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:03:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm1318413ewy.74.2009.02.05.04.03.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:03:02 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:01:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.27.13r4; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <200902051201.38316.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902051301.48888.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: aa77316f-aadd-482a-a26f-b425ed07035b X-Archives-Hash: 0d4db355eff4471f2fdfcfe3d58343aa On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:. > > > >>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a > >>> different manner to the way the thing will be used. > >> > >> Because installation is boring. The easier it is, the better. > > > > wrong. The installation needs a certain difficulty to keep idiots away. > > Nobody needs idiots (except maybe ubuntu). > > That is insulting. My mother uses Ubuntu. Thanks for calling her an > idiot. no, I didn't call her 'idiot'. I am just stating that ubuntu tries to cater for idiots. > Obviously if someone wants to use his computer in order to get > something done without doing a Ph.D on Portage and /etc first, then that > person is an idiot. no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who don't read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if something does not work. Idiots.