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Fabian Groffen posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:39:39 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> On 10-02-2011 07:54:16 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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>> The only way to avoid epic failures is to keep the whole thing simple, |
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>> without trying to fit everybody. An installer that would cover a |
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>> standard install, newbie-oriented scenario would be definitely good. |
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>> Experienced people won't use it anyway, so why bothering trying to |
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>> cover their needs, it would be a straight way to fail again. |
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> Just FYI: |
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> Interestingly, it were the power/experienced users that requested a |
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> simple installer, because they got tired of copy&paste-ing the same |
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> commands from the manual over and over again. |
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That /is/ interesting! |
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One would think such power-users would script up or build their own |
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solution. I'm virtually certain I would for something I found myself |
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doing over and over like that, much as I've built up my own emerge and |
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git-kernel fetch/build/install helper scripts. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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