El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 20:00, Mike Edenfield escribió: > On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > >> no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people >> who don't read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if >> something does not work. Idiots. > > "They should read the manual" is *not* a valid design goal for a system. > At best, it's a justification or rationalization when outside > constraints force a design to be non-intuitive.
Gentoo is not a distro. You don't "use" it, It's a metadristro that can be used to build a proper distro, after that you can use the final product. > Given the choice between two otherwise equally functional systems (of > any sort -- electronic, mechanical, digital, etc); if one requires me to > spend extensive time reading an instruction manual to use and the other is > designed to be easy to use out of the box -- the "idiot" is the person > wasting their time reading instead of being productive. To use your own > example, I have no problem figuring out how to start my car, turn on the > A/C, tune my radio, and drive to work without reading the > automobile manual. No. Your point is valid but in the other sense. If you are choosing the wrong tool for you, it's your problem. If you don't want to build a system from scratch but you insist on using Gentoo and you insist that it MUST be easy to use, then you are the one that screw the thing up. I want to remove some screws, but I want to do it with my hammer!!! > If Gentoo's installer *has* to be difficult because it's the only way to > supply additional benefits or features, that's a perfectly reasonable > argument. If Gentoo's installer is *stuck* being difficult because there > is a lack of resources interested in making it better, that's an > upsetting, but equally reasonable argument. As said in other posts, I think that the true reason is that there's not any interest in doing it. Many attempts have been started and abandoned in the past. > If Gentoo's installer is difficult *on purpose* just to make Gentoo hard > to use, that's ridiculous. It's not dificult. You can read, you can do it. -- Jesús Guerrero
