Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:13:38
Message-Id: 47A8C2A0.4050101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD by Peter Weber
1 Hi.
2
3 Peter Weber wrote:
4 >> Anyone gave this any thought? There are still a LOT of dial-up users
5 >> out here. People seem to forget that, especially the website with all
6 >> the huge pages. My Space comes to mind on that.
7 >>
8 >
9 > Even users with high-speed connections want to stay independent and
10 > free, relying on a network-connection is unsafe.
11 >
12 > I want my backup of my OS in my hand and not on a web-server.
13 > But I also prefer web-installation because I got immediately up-to-date
14 > files.
15 >
16 >
17 Dale, that's true and we worry about that. However, there's so much we
18 can do about it.
19
20 Peter, this is a source distro. The release engineering team created the
21 GLI for those that wanted pre-compiled packages for a networkless
22 install. But our regular install has to be network based. If you want to
23 have a backup of your system, you should look into creating a stage4
24 image of your system. Also, unlike other distros, one doesn't need to
25 reinstall to update Gentoo.
26 > Relying on a network-connection for installation is like relying on the
27 > Windows-Activation and Windows live-update. If you need it, you can be
28 > sure, that it will NOT work! Maybe they deny the access, delete the all
29 > the files through a accident, or some stupid captain cut off your
30 > backbone...*haha*
31 >
32 I've never done a networkless install of Gentoo and I've installed it a
33 "few" times on several arches without any "network glitches".
34
35 --
36 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
37 Gentoo-forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE
38
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Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>