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On 18 Feb 2004, at 21:23, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> It's also too important part of the installation. Perhaps not for the |
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> cron |
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> (not everybody needs a cron daemon) but it is for the system logger. |
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> You |
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> cannot ask the user to install a system logger after he has rebooted |
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> into his |
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> Gentoo system. It'll upset the user as all information is printed on |
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> his |
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> terminal. |
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It is indeed a cosmetic issue, and when no logger is installed the |
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login process spawns an ugly message making the user think his system |
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is broken. |
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Looking at this from another perspective: |
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a stage3 is a stage2 + emerge system |
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The system profile includes virtuals (logger, cron, kernel, |
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bootloader). The problem is that there are a few possibilities to |
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realize these virtuals and thus there are different realizations for a |
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given profile. We could choose a default realization of such a virtual, |
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but for something like a logger this might be difficult, a user is not |
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bound to like our choices :-). This brings up my earlier suggestion |
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about a "virtual stage3". It would be trivial to have portage (-ng) |
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automatically suggest a realization for a system profile using GRP, |
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rather than to create different realizations. Not having to include |
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stage3's, would allow to create only 1 cd instead of 2 cd sets. Instead |
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of 1 bootable CD + 5 non-bootable CDs we would have only 5 bootable |
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CDs. |
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Pieter |
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