Fwd: [gentoo-user] OT: Elitist Chowderheads, was Gentoo to get a REAL installer

[Collins Richey]

Ah, how I love a good roast! This one is too good to resist sharing.
Seems like at least one person on gentoo-user took Volker's arrogant
crap in exactly the same way we did on linux-users. Enjoy.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kashani <kashani-list at badapple.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:06:48 -0600
Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: Elitist Chowderheads, was Gentoo to get a
REAL installer
To: gentoo-user at lists.gentoo.org


Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> if we are talking about people who are only able to install gentoo because of
> an automated, graphical installer, then we will get: a lot more 'bug reports'
> that are not ones. a lot more really really stupid questions (I wait for the
> day, someone asks, where he can find the gentoo-homepage), and no new
> developers (but a lot more work for the existing ones).

        One might also imagine we'd get less questions on actually installing
Gentoo and more on doing stuff with it. There I go again with my tricky
logic.

        All successful and useful projects get new people. It's a fact of life
and frankly if you aren't, you're doing something wrong. That holds true
from the Gentoo project to the Roman Empire. If you can not integrate
new people successfully into your organization, it will fail.
        Gentoo has in fact from the very start been about making things easier.
Easier to pick the packages you want, easier to upgrade, easier to
custom build packages, easier to update etc files, etc. Gentoo has even
gone out of its way to make better how-tos and is known in the Linux
community at large for having just about the most useful and friendly
forums.

        Gentoo can either continue extending the infrastructure to support the
people being attracted to a damn useful distro. Or clowns like you can
attempt to keep Gentoo all to yourself with Jim Crow style exclusionary
tactics.



-- 
 Collins