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On Wed, 29 May 2013 15:55:23 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > We want to make this easier towards the user, therefore doing heavy |
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> > discussion to exhaust all the alternatives and maybe someone's |
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> > interested in implementing one of them that appears most feasible. |
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> Since users can already do this, why are we bothering with |
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> re-inventing the wheel? How does running an eselect init command make |
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> it easier for the user than telling them to edit their boot loader |
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> config file? |
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> Gentoo users are expected to build their kernel and write their boot |
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> loader config file initially, so why are we trying to dumb this down? |
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For the same reason we have all the other eselect modules. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/ |
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Ironically, that project description even mentions init system... :) |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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