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 1LUzcN-00046R-TN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:29:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4486DE0585; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210B4E0585 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FF8645EC for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:29:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.43 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.43 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.169, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fCa1FdW9ZgKE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11E2644DC for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUzcA-0001vo-N8 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:29:38 +0000 Received: from athedsl-412040.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.161.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:29:38 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-412040.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:29:38 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:29:45 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <1233779854.4596.41.camel@silversword> <200902050841.29019.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-412040.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090203) In-Reply-To: <200902050841.29019.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 27385c37-26b1-4678-972b-a1de097b3846 X-Archives-Hash: d4de538e9602e98ac9dd62afcdfadf79 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Sebasti=C3=A1n Magr=C3=AD wrote: >>> The installation experience with the traditional method must be >>> mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is >>> deprecated... >> That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not easy to >> install. But since there are not enough devs left for the GUI >> installer, not much that can be done. >> >> Gentoo isn't unsuitable for a GUI installer. It's stage 3, after all. >=20 > gentoo had its highest popularity when there were no gui installer (and= no=20 > stable tree). This kept the stupid ' I don't want to read docs' crowd a= way. That's a contradicting statement. How was the popularity at highest if=20 it kept a crowd away?