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to quote yourself: |
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The only problem is the installer. It's evil. There's really no way to |
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work around it though. |
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about the only thing you can pull out and install manually (non-gui) is |
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the JRE. |
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-- yes. I read the whole thread. -- |
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//Spider |
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begin quote |
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:25:37 -0700 |
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antitux@××××××××.com (John Dee) wrote: |
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> read the whole thread. |
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> |
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> Spider wrote: |
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> > the main reason I see against it is that for all that I see there's |
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> > no way around the cute graphical installer. And, because of that its |
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> > unlikely that you'll ever get it to work without user intervention. |
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> > |
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> > one could of course make it download the individual files, modify |
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> > the ini' and instruct the user to run the installer themselves. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > //Spider |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > begin quote |
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> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:32:59 -0700 |
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> > antitux@××××××××.com (John Dee) wrote: |
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> > |
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> > |
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> >>I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you |
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> >>guys weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x |
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> >>series probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build |
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> >>engineer on the project). |
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> >>I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project. |
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> >>Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really |
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> >>wouldn't take much to do. |
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> >>The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know |
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> >>portage yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days). |
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> >>I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you |
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> >>want. |
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> >> |
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> >>_______________________________________________ |
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> >>gentoo-dev mailing list |
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> >>gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> >>http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > begin .signature |
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> > This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! |
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> > See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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> > end |
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> |
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> |
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> _______________________________________________ |
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> gentoo-dev mailing list |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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