Fabian Groffen posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:39:39 +0100 as excerpted: > On 10-02-2011 07:54:16 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> The only way to avoid epic failures is to keep the whole thing simple, >> without trying to fit everybody. An installer that would cover a >> standard install, newbie-oriented scenario would be definitely good. >> Experienced people won't use it anyway, so why bothering trying to >> cover their needs, it would be a straight way to fail again. > > Just FYI: > Interestingly, it were the power/experienced users that requested a > simple installer, because they got tired of copy&paste-ing the same > commands from the manual over and over again.
That /is/ interesting! One would think such power-users would script up or build their own solution. I'm virtually certain I would for something I found myself doing over and over like that, much as I've built up my own emerge and git-kernel fetch/build/install helper scripts. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
