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
