On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the > > liveCD > > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I > > can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've heard so much > > about" and be done with it. > > The irony here is that gentoo has had the live cd for a long time which > makes installing so much easier, but just won't go that extra step > because...it's supposed to be hard? If it's "supposed" to be hard, why > have the live cd? seems contrary. >
well, hard filters out the 'I am stupid and I don't read documentation' crowd, which is a good thing. I would not call the installation via graphical installer 'hard', I would call it 'buggy beyond usefullness'. Apart from that, IMHO a livecd is completly braindead. When compiling you need as much free ram as you can get. Every mb counts. And a livecd takes away A LOT of ram. Even more stupid - a livecd with gnome (which is the DE with the biggest ram usage). So we have a livecd, which is stupid in itself, for installing and a buggy installer - only because to prevent some idiots from reading the documentation. Is that really smart? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
