Gentoo Archives: gentoo-installer

From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:54
Message-Id: 4404ADED.9060801@smash-net.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer by Donnie Berkholz
1 Donnie Berkholz schrieb:
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5 >The portage team just got rid of exactly this capability for creating
6 >difficult to reproduce USE flag setups, because they were dynamic, based
7 >on what's installed rather than set unconditionally in make.conf.
8 >
9 >So it's a difficult argument to say we should re-add it into the installer.
10 >
11 >Thanks,
12 >Donnie
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15 >
16 Why difficult to reproduce? Same software should create same USE-flag
17 settings.
18 I find it a little funny, that an official installer installes a perhaps
19 not working system "by default".
20 I think that misses the point of an installer!
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Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>