On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:53 -0500, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Kurt Lieber wrote: > > We have received *numerous* complaints from users about the decision to > > remove stage 1 and 2 from the installation documentation. I realize it's > > still available if users are willing to dig for it, but not all users do. > > > > In my years of monitoring [EMAIL PROTECTED], we've received the most > > complaints about this decision than any other single decision. Is there a > > way we can re-introduce the stages into the installation documentation, > > perhaps with gigantic warnings saying, "for advanced users only" or "use at > > your own risk"? > > Well, if we could educate the users that stage2 tarballs are totally > pointless, and that running bootstrap.sh followed by emerge -e system > from a stage3 is pretty much *exactly* the same as starting a stage1 > from scratch...
It isn't pretty much anymore. It *is* exactly the same. > To me, the email from that user sounds like the typical vocal minority > of users who make "screw common sense in favor of choice" complaints > whenever we change something for the better. Exactly. It sounds like we are letting ourselves be swayed by a few heated words from someone who is obviously shooting for a reaction. If we give in, the terrorists have won. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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