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I have no problem with the idea of an installer. The more tools the better. |
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On the other hand, a possible problem with Anaconda: I haven't used it, |
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but I assume it's x86 only? If so, we can't use it on ppc, sparc etc. |
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One of gentoo's greatest virtues is portability (look for more ports |
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appearing over the next few months), and I would encourage anyone |
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writing tools to bear this in mind. For a quick fix, anaconda may be |
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fine (we'll just live without the installer on ppc), but is there any |
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reason why, in the long term, the --buildpkg/--usepkg features of |
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portage couldn't be leveraged in place of the rpms? A virtue of this is |
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that portage itself could be tweaked to enhance the installer if |
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necessary, since it's our tool, not RedHat's. |
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Regards, |
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David |
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