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On 11-10-2010 11:24, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:42 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." |
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> <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 10/11/10 9:01 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>>> all it needs is a maintainer that doesnt suck and keeps the project going. so |
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>>> until that happens, nothing is going to change. |
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>> I think it's more than that. Even when it was maintained, the installer |
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>> was buggy. An installer which doesn't work hurts the reputation of |
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>> Gentoo. Make sure the installer is very solid before it is more broadly |
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>> advertised. |
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> Another problem was that users who used the installer and never read |
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> the handbooks constantly got problems using and maintaining their |
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> system afterwards. On the other hand, an automated installer is *very* |
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> useful for people already experienced with Gentoo to install new |
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> systems w/o spending 3 hours of personal time on it. |
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Since most of the install process is already automated by emerge. Most |
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of work left to the user is indeed configuration of the system |
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(make.conf, conf.d & friends). |
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So I would instead focus on a CLI util to help quickly generate (up to |
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date) configuration files for make.conf and conf.d files. - that is what |
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takes most of the time.. |
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Example: |
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System clock [/etc/conf.d/hwclock] |
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[U] Set clock to (L)ocal or (U)TC. (Choose local if dual-booting |
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windows) |
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[X] Sync HW clock at shutdown |
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Ones like conf.d/net will be trickier... |
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My 2 cents |
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- Angelo |
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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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