Sorry about sysinstall.

[John Baldwin]

On 18-Sep-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
> Nik Clayton wrote:
>> This in no way prevents you from shipping your own installer CD which
>> you describe in your documentation as the preferred method to install.
>> 
>> Then, if the customer has problems installing FreeBSd using your
>> installer, and comes to the project's mailing lists for help, they'll
>> be told to either contact your customer support, or use the project's
>> installer which you will have shipped as part of your product.
>> 
>> Why is this so hard for you to understand?
> 
> It's not hard for me to understand.
> 
> It's just annoying.
> 
> Do you see the similarities between some hypothetical person
> with a third party FreeBSD installer that installs the same
> damn FreeBS plus the same damn packages, and having some well
> known FreeBSD problem biting them, being told to reinstall
> "using the project's installer", because *somehow*, "it *must*
> be the GUI version of sysintall that's biting them on the ass"
> when the battery monitor in KDE fails to work with their
> laptop?

Try and find one instance on current, hackers, arch, etc. where
someone reported a bug and someone else asked them which installer
they used to install the box.

> It's assinine to limit something because of a hypothetical
> situation that could be engineered against anyway, but even
> if it wasn't, will probably never occur.

It's assinine to make bogus, unfounded statements about the
developers on the mailing lists and their responses to bug
reports.

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