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On Thursday 22 January 2004 18:02, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Oh you of little faith. Someone approached karltk at LWE with a |
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> completed python+gtk2 installer. See http://pen2.sclab.clarkson.edu/. |
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> I quote Karl: |
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> "What's more, they're going to be working actively on this |
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> irrespectively of whether we officially start using it or not. I |
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> personally would think it completely stupid not to seriously consider |
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> this most generous offer; they are an entire sw development team, they |
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> seem organised, they have api docs, and they're long-time gentoo users. |
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> Having them do most of the dirty-work, leaves us to do integration and |
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> tweaks, to polish this thing off." |
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Looks quite ok. There are some point I think are of interest though which |
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basically come down to "there is no expert mode": |
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- There is access to a partitioning tool, let alone qtparted or similar. |
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- Only a very rough package selection is available. |
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- I don't know whether it is smart to offer a no-network setup to newbee's, |
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gentoo has a rather strong assumption on the network being available. |
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In general I think we should decide on what kind of installer we want, who do |
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we want to target? Do we want to target newbee's. Do we want to offer |
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software based on detected available hardware (offer sane if a supported |
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scanner was detected) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |