malex: You are clearly wrong in some of the ideas you are having. An installer is definetly not for "lesser" admins. Look at debian/RedHat/Fedora and all the other distributions of Linux (except possibly slackware which idea is to deliver in tarballs) and see that they use installers to make an installation more effective. When you have installed something alot you will also understand that a installation procedure is the only way to go.
I will make an rpm installation of the Source Mod and I will never use anyting else. It is definetly easier to make an rpm for something than have to redo the fiddeling on the next machine and the next... and the next...
When it is installed and works then you could go tinker and break it
And I'm realy sorry for the Windows Admins out there that doesn't have the rpm option available to them.
