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From: Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] 2006.1 Handbook suggestions?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:13:20
Message-Id: 4487322F.6040203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] 2006.1 Handbook suggestions? by Chris Gianelloni
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4 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:11 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
6 >> One question: how many other arches have had their networkless installs moved to
7 >> the GLI by default? Sure, I wrote the gtkfe/dialog to be arch-neutral, but
8 >> depending on 2006.1 arch additions and/or screen/config process additions, it
9 >> might need to be updated somewhat.
10 >
11 > Provided that there are no more major bugs, we should be switching amd64
12 > to using GLI this release.
13 >
14 > Also, the GTK+ installer will have "modes" support. This is a selection
15 > on the first screen for "standard" and "networkless" that disables any
16 > options under networkless that might require a network connection. It
17 > should reduce the number of bugs caused by people doing things like
18 > selecting dcron when doing networkless, or anything else that would
19 > cause a network to be required.
20 >
21 >> Overall, I'd say we're in great shape, with hopefully minimal content changes to
22 >> be made to the docs.
23 >
24 > There will probably be a good bit of content changes due to modes
25 > support. I'll try to get you guys a beta "advanced" copy of a LiveCD as
26 > quickly as possible to help you guys work through the documentation.
27 >
28 Thanks very much for this heads-up, Chris. Yay! Sooner I get a copy (or a handy
29 video like last time ;)), the sooner I can start making the changes to the
30 networkless handbook.
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Re: [gentoo-doc] 2006.1 Handbook suggestions? Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>