On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:37:20 -0400 Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> On 3/20/2014 5:48 PM, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Why should Gentoo have a default? > > Defaults are always a good idea - as long as they are reasonable and > rational. In that case, Gentoo is missing a lot of "good" things, from a default system logger to a default desktop environment. AFAICS, the benefit of defaults, provided they're reasonable, is that they remove the burden of making choices from the user. But I keep reading that Gentoo is all about user choice. > > ISTM the only good reason is that not having a default would make > > the documentation a lot more complicated. > > Documentation, *and* the install process itself. I'm not seeing that at all.
