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On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:14:51 Zhu Sha Zang wrote: |
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> Em 11-10-2010 10:11, David Abbott escreveu: |
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> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:37 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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> >> On 10/11/10 11:24 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> >>> In summation, IMO the goal of the installer should be to automate and |
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> >>> not to make it easy for newbies to install Gentoo. With that in mind, |
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> >>> please someone work on this! :) |
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> >> |
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> >> Which means it doesn't have to be GUI, right? That makes the task much |
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> >> simpler. |
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> >> |
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> >> It would be something like automating stage4, meaning storing the build |
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> >> settings (/etc/make.conf), the list of packages |
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> >> (/var/lib/portage/world)... and kicking off the install in one step. Or |
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> >> something like that. |
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> >> |
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> >> Which also means we can do the above step by step. A graphical installer |
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> >> which does the half of installation and stops is useless. But a tool |
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> >> that speeds up the manual installation by half is very useful. |
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> > |
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> > agaffney started quickstart, I am not sure of the status; |
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> > http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php |
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> |
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> Gentoo installer are useless. Please gentoo's developers: Don't waste |
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> your time with this. |
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> We don't need Ubuntu's Users in our forums asking nonsense questions to us. |
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> The first step to rank better our users start in installation a little |
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> more difficult. |
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that is your opinion. which means you can choose to not have anything to do |
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with it. but that doesnt mean that other people who find it useful may not |
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work on it and get things integrated. stuff happens in Gentoo because someone |
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finds it interesting and makes it work. |
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-mike |
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