That's right all of releng's work on making a pretty iso is a waste of time. Gentoo doesn't need them. You can install Gentoo off of any livecd, or not, my last install was nothing but chroot until I thought had everything set, then I removed the other distro, moved gentoo and attempted a boot. It didn't work, but that was probably because I had forgotten SATA requires SCSI in the kernel.
releng should focus on getting us up to date tarballs more often, especially when gcc, or glibc have been updated (as the 2 biggest pita's in system). Other than that we should have them use the Sabayon, System Rescue Cd, or other distro's based on Gentoo (we could point them to knoppix or dsl for all it matters) to install from. Instead our tarball's are out of date because releng must develop a new cd/dvd.
People will think less of Gentoo if we don't offer a CD.
So? Gentoo is and has always been for power users. I don't want the n00buntu user's here before they are ready. If they are judging us based on a cd they won't be using daily what does that say about them? first and foremost we should be satisfying the needs of our current users.
That being said we should still update iso's once a year maybe once every 2 years, because users will need cd's to install from. This should be very low on the list, because as I said there are other livecd distro's that can do this job and let releng get back on track.
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