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Dan Armak wrote: |
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> From the linked file: |
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> - The same flexibility as the current manual process with NO loss of |
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> any of the options (custom partitioning, file system type selection, |
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> individual package selections, etc.). If any option, no matter how |
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> seemingly esoteric, is removed, the community will (rightfully) |
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> reject the project in its entirety. |
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> AFAICS, the only truly encompassing solution would be to provide an interface |
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> of sorts to a console. The user could view and edit commands generated by the |
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> installer, see their raw output, pause operation and insert commands of his |
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> own, etc. |
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While I believe that being able to pause between steps and drop to a |
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shell is a useful feature (especially for those learning), I don't think |
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it's absolutely required. What I mean by same flexibility is to allow |
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for individual package selection, file system type selection, custom |
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partitioning schemes, and other things we get to do during the current |
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installs. Some of the installers I've used in the past (thinking of YaST |
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from SuSE) have allowed for such things without being overly cumbersome |
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to the user. The console installer could, for instance, drop the user |
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into cfdisk for custom partitioning (just an example) while the gtk |
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client can use a gtk table with very little custom control work to do |
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the same. |
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Someone (klieber, maybe) suggested a console view to display what hte |
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installer was actually doing which might not be a bad idea. The Mac OS X |
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installer has a "view log" menu item that displays just about |
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everything it's doing down to detected disks and the like. I think |
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something like this might be good. The console install can do the same |
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by supplying an option to switch to a log view. It's all pretty open ended. |
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> If he wanted to use something not yet provided by the installer, |
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> he'd just tell it to skip a step and do it manually. |
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That's also interesting. |
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> What do you think? |
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I think it raises some good points and ideas. A console view type thing |
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might be good for education and interjecting commands during phases of |
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installation. |
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Thanks for your comments. |
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Eric Sammer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |