Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> 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.
>
>   
I think we have a different understandig about this thread.

Norman