Captains log; stardate Monday 19 January 2004 05:04 pm, Lieutenant Joseph reported
that.......

> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:58:36 +0000, Shan Destromp wrote:
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>> Genkernel is wothless when you really get down to it. All it does is take away
>> you having to type one line of commands, and give you the impression that its
>> saving you time.
>
> You must be talking about the -old- genkernel...
>
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I fail to see what the big deal about it is. So it can now pre-select your hardware
and such, whoopty doo. Maybe I don't WANT all of my hardware installed (as is the
case with a built in modem and sound), or I don't agree with some of the default
options it pre-selects for me.

I know its all a matter of personal preference, but I feel as though genkernel is
taking away a step Linux users (ESPECIALLY newbies) should have to (learn how to)
do. If you don't know how to build your kernel (and what the options mean) then you
don't know how to fix it when you need to, and so on and so forth ad nauseam,
infinity and what have you.

I dunno, maybe the install docs *shouldn't* have you run it by default, or should
alteast make you use --menuconfig to look around before you let it go on its way

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Shan Destromp
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