On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 00:24:09 +0700, Ста Деюс wrote: > >> But something tells me the reason of absence of the installer are >> much deeper. > > Yes, it is that no one has felt the need to devote the considerable > amount of time needed to code and test an installer that takes into > account the far wider range of choices in Gentoo. >
While there are some that consider the lack of an installer some kind of virtue, I think you've really hit the crux of it here. There is no reason that Gentoo couldn't have an installer that at least gives you a default stage3 to start from, or a few alternative options. However, in the end it requires that somebody actually build it. From what I've seen when this issue comes up people fall into two categories: 1. People who really want an installer because they're struggling to get Gentoo working. Well, if they struggle to get it working chances are they're going to struggle even more to build an installer for everybody else to use. 2. People who could build an installer if they wanted to, but they don't really need to, because they either are happy with doing it manually, or already have some rough scripts that are good enough for them. Nobody is going to "ban" a Gentoo installer, and there have been points in time where people have worked on one. However, until somebody actually both wants to build one and is able to build one we probably won't have one. That isn't some kind of policy - it is just the reality of how volunteer FOSS projects work. -- Rich
