Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

[Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 11/22/05, Nagatoro <nagatoro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> >>Therefore we can deduce that anyone who wants a harder install is a
> >>hobbyist, dilettante, and a dabbler.
> >
> > no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the
> > fucking manual.
>
> Or the FAQ? Where it's described how to do a stage1/2 equivalent install
> from a stage3.

Gentoo is widely documented, and if you can read, most answers are
already at the wikis, howtos, gentoo docs and mailing lists, add to
this the foruns and user groups. Gentoo has a knowledge base that can
make you solve most problems, of course, if its one of those HARD
issues, you can always ask, but then again, those are 10% (if all of
that) from our traffic.

So, yes, the install was a "how to read and follow the manual"
teaching, and stage3 is easier and taught less than stage1, but hey,
its faster and have less side effects, and besides, if you can get a
stage1 from a stage3, who cares?!

But again, we'll have lots of RTFM and STFW in our foruns and mailing
lists... If you can find the manual page, don't give them the
solutions, give the link instead, teaching someone how to fish feeds
for a lifetime, giving someone the fish itself only feed once.

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