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 20:28:01
Message-Id: 4404B20A.2040504@smash-net.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer by Andrew Gaffney
1 Andrew Gaffney schrieb:
2
3 > Norman Rieß wrote:
4 >
5 >> Donnie Berkholz schrieb:
6 >>
7 >>>
8 >>>
9 >>> The portage team just got rid of exactly this capability for creating
10 >>> difficult to reproduce USE flag setups, because they were dynamic,
11 >>> based
12 >>> on what's installed rather than set unconditionally in make.conf.
13 >>>
14 >>> So it's a difficult argument to say we should re-add it into the
15 >>> installer.
16 >>>
17 >>> Thanks,
18 >>> Donnie
19 >>>
20 >>>
21 >>>
22 >> Why difficult to reproduce? Same software should create same USE-flag
23 >> settings.
24 >> I find it a little funny, that an official installer installes a
25 >> perhaps not working system "by default".
26 >> I think that misses the point of an installer!
27 >
28 >
29 > USE flags control optional stuff. If something doesn't work because of
30 > a missing USE flag, that's a bug with that particular ebuild.
31 >
32 Ok, than let it miss, don´t set it wrong!
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