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I'm sorry, but I feel I must weigh in here... |
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This entire thread is pointless, since the list of available USE flags |
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depends entirely on what portage tree is used, and the installer cannot |
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know that until the install has already started. |
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Having said that, the installer was *not* written to make installation |
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easier for the user, but instead to make the process automated, to allow |
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for mass deployments and such. Any user-friendliness you may be |
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experiencing is simply a result of an effort on the developers' part to |
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make it as easy on system administrators as possible. |
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As far as the issue of reading the documentation goes, I agree with |
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Oddball; those who can't or aren't willing to read the manual should not |
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be using Gentoo. No matter how much you may want it to, a single |
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distribution can't fit everybody perfectly. If a distribution tries to |
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accommodate everyone, it will tend to die. That's just a fact of life. |
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Deal with it. |
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On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:03 -0800, Revrend Oddball wrote: |
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> but this would sort of sidestep the entire point of gentoo.. |
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> from what i understand gentoo has always been about giving a user all teh |
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> options and the documentation to learn and act on their own. if you do not wish |
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> to follow this base idea then go with something else like suse or fedora. |
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> the rule of thumb i have always gone with if i dont know what an option is then |
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> i leave it the heck alone or read the manual to find out what it is. |
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> its not like they make it hard to get a list of what the use flags are. Maybe |
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> instead of making them go away simply make a to the manual on use flags. gently |
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> suggesting to the user to rtfm but ultimately the idea is to read the |
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> documentation. |
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