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

[Matthew Carpenter]

Very Nice.  This reply is quite tasty, and logical.  Nice going.

Collins Richey wrote:

>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.
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>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
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>Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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>>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).
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>        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.
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>        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.
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>        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.
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