On Tue, 29 May 2007 07:45:11 -0700
"Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/28/07, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > Based only on your comments above (I haven't looked at the proposed
> > changes), good idea.  I had automated each section when xorg7 was
> > first introduced, however, it was decided that this was way too
> > much hand holding, and those scripts were moved into the wiki.
> > This was the way that I had envisioned it originally, but
> > compromise was made in the generic block of commands that are now
> > on the intro page.  I hope we've gotten past that and that the
> > partially automated sectional build falls outside of the 'too much
> > hand holding' argument.
> 
> I hope so, too. I think more people have actually tried to build it
> now and realize how much of a PITA it is if you don't have the whole
> thing scripted.

Absolutely.  It's all very well to say 'don't handhold' but why force
people to reinvent the bloody wheel every time. It's the multiplicity of
the components - all built the same way - that does it, none of the
other packages have this scale of duplication.  Even GROAN, which I
don't build, isn't in this class.

R.


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