Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, "masochists", live in >> peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do >> with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice] >> >> There have been several attempts to make a decent installer. They >> all failed miserably and got abandoned. Why? Because to tell the >> truth, no one has an authentic interest in the matter. The simple >> answer is most probably the right one. >> > > To add to you (excellent) arguments: > > There is no GUI admin tool for gentoo. You drive this puppy on the command > line with tools like emerge, equery, genlop, layman and q. That's how it > works, we are all comfortable with this, and this is good. > > I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a > different manner to the way the thing will be used. > >
Does porthole count? I use it sometimes and it is well all right. I miss etcat myself. Just as I was starting to get used to it, it disappeared. Dale :-) :-)
