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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:56:04
Message-Id: 44044871.200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer by LinuxMan
1 LinuxMan wrote:
2 > I agree with Norman, why show something if it's not relevant. It just
3 > confuses things. Shouldn't be to hard to comment out un-related options
4 > based on the users previous input.
5
6 Because the installer has no way to know what isn't relevant. While we could
7 hardcode the services that every package in the tree at the time of the snapshot
8 offers and display them if that package is selected to be emerged, that's just
9 kinda dumb. Also, this wouldn't cover the case of people using an up-to-date tree.
10
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12 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
13 Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
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Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>