Gentoo Archives: gentoo-installer

From: LinuxMan <linuxman@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:40:27
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer by "Norman Rieß"
1 I agree with Norman, why show something if it's not relevant. It just
2 confuses things. Shouldn't be to hard to comment out un-related options
3 based on the users previous input.
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5 -----Original Message-----
6 From: Norman Rieß [mailto:norman@×××××××××.org]
7 Sent: 27 February 2006 21:34
8 To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
9 Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux
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13 Andrew Gaffney schrieb:
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15 > Norman Rieß wrote:
16 >
17 >> Hello
18 >>
19 >> Great Installer. I tried it right after i finished downloading the
20 >> 2006.0.
21 >> But i have a question though. I recognized that the use flags are set
22 >> to "X" and "Gnome" (and so on) by default.
23 >> Later in the "Extra Packages" screen you can choose other desktop
24 >> environments or perhaps no x at all.
25 >>
26 >> Would it not be nice, if the flags are set after you choose your
27 >> desktop environment or the other packages?
28 >> If one chooses KDE as desktop the useflag could switch from gnome to
29 >> kde. If no x11 is chosen, the flag isn´t set so "+X" either.
30 >
31 >
32 > This is the same as doing an install by hand.
33
34 I don´t see why this is.
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36 >
37 >> Same thing on the "Startup Services". I can choose some daemons to
38 >> start up, that are not even installed. I find this a little disturbing.
39 >
40 >
41 > Well, it's not possible to know services will be available beforehand,
42 > so we just give you a bunch of common options (along with adding
43 > custom ones in the future). Ones that don't exist will be ignored
44 > during the install.
45 >
46 True, but if i do not click the ProFTPd in the selection screen, you can
47 assume, that there is no ProFTPd installed to start automatically. This
48 way you can filter out not all, but some unlogic choices.
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Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>