Kari Hazzard wrote: [Mon Oct 09 2006, 10:30:40PM CDT] > User-centric design is why Gentoo is/was different from everything > else. Take away choices that people want and you take the Gentoo > philosophy out of Gentoo itself.
Heh. You might want to read drobbins' "Making the distribution" articles (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml) sometime. Many of the original design decisions were intended to facilitate a very small number of developers in assembling and maintaining a sizeable meta-distribution. I think many of those decisions were quite inspired, but "user-centric" is a bit much, I think. All that said, we're not really trying to make things vastly harder on people. Many of the complaining e-mails I've read in this thread have complained without any specifics. If instead they were to say "I'm wondering how I'll do 'blah' w/ the new CD, could somebody let me know the best way to do this", I suspect that everybody would be happier. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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