Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
because it kept the 'i am too cool to read the docs' idiots away. Being forced
to read the documentation is a good thing - and it did not hurt gentoo's
popularity. Only after it started to catering to idiots and more and more of
loud mouthed 'I am the centre of the universe, I don't need to read docs, use
google or bugzilla. I demand an answer and help NOW' assholes came on board,
the popularity went down.
The above statement is ridiculous and I've said my piece on it several
times. Not worth the bother of debunking it yet again so I'll just link
the infamous "Elitist Chowderhead" thread from four years ago.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/109660/focus=109984
What people forget is that a well built installer has to run through a
number of steps that get you a running system. Ideally a system that has
exactly what you expect to be installed and how. Whether this is a GUI,
ncurses based, whatever is besides the point. An installer project
builds a set of tools that eventually can be used to install hundreds of
machines in a uniform way and that is damn useful.
kashani
