On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:38:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> There is such a thing as a prerequisite level of expertise. Every field
> has this and every field SHOULD enforce it. You don't get to drive a
> car on a public road till you have proven that you have learned how to
> drive a car, and you don't learn how on public roads. Why is gentoo any
> different, and why is it every time this thread comes up we get flooded
> with the idea that we must entertain stupid people? It's not elitist,
> it's a simple fact of life.

There is another point here - developer resources are limited. Unless you
are prepared to work on an installer yourself, and no-one is stopping
you, resurrecting the defunct GLI project could impinge on development in
other areas. As installation is a rare occurrence with Gentoo, once in the
lifetime of each computer, it is understandable that effort is put into
other areas.

Or maybe no-one want an installer badly enough to work on one, with the
possible exception of quickstart.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Plagarism prohibited. Derive carefully.