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On Monday 26 January 2004 07:35, Eric Sammer wrote: |
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> As most of you know, people have been looking into an official Gentoo |
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> installer. There are a number of projects out there concentrating on |
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> different areas, but there is an effort to bring them all together. The |
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> following document covers the general situation and what should / will |
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> happen if all interested parties are, well, interested and the details |
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> can be worked out. |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gentoo_installer_project.txt |
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> |
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> Please take a look and share any constructive comments and suggestions. |
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From the linked file: |
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- The same flexibility as the current manual process with NO loss of |
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any of the options (custom partitioning, file system type selection, |
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individual package selections, etc.). If any option, no matter how |
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seemingly esoteric, is removed, the community will (rightfully) |
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reject the project in its entirety. |
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AFAICS, the only truly encompassing solution would be to provide an interface |
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of sorts to a console. The user could view and edit commands generated by the |
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installer, see their raw output, pause operation and insert commands of his |
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own, etc. If he wanted to use something not yet provided by the installer, |
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he'd just tell it to skip a step and do it manually. |
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What do you think? |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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