On Donnerstag, 8. November 2007, James wrote: two things:
memory. Every mb wasted for X - or even worse gnome, the biggest memory hog out there - is a mb that can't be used by gcc. Thus a graphical environment slows down installation. cd/dvd space. Every mb wasted for a full blown X and a harddisk/dvd/cd space hog like gnome is a mb that can not be used for providing distfiles, stages or GRP packages thus increasing the time the installing user has to wait to fetch them from the net. This two points are very valid reasons why graphical installers are bad. There are even more reasons, but I am just too lazy at the moment. Think about bugs - you should find them yourself. Btw, I remember the days when all installation instructions fit on one sheet of Din A5 paper - and installing was easier than to beat the graphical installer into submission. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
