On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:57:38 Dale wrote:
> 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.

You're just stirring the pot Dale :-)

I know for a fact that you can hold your own with emerge and eix :-)


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