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On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:46:32 +0200 Karl Trygve Kalleberg |
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<karltk@×××××××.no> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:31:08PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote: |
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> > This depends on what userbase we have/want to have. Most packages |
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> you |
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> > install you want to check the config before you are using them. So |
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> I |
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> > don't think we have to mention everytime there are a |
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> configure-file |
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> > available in a package. |
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> > |
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> > Most of our current users are advanced Linux users and doesn't |
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> need to |
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> > be told about the possibility to configure packages. |
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> I'm not advocating "dumbing down" our users; but I do think it only |
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> fair |
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> to make a notice to the user that "this package does, contrary to |
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> what one |
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> would expect, does not work without manual configuration". |
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> I find it repulsive that I have to manually configure my video |
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> player to |
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> get it to run at all. I have not problems accepting that I will have |
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> to |
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> manually tweak it to obtain optimal performance. But the point of |
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> using a |
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> distro (any kind of distro) in the first place was to avoid doing |
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> all the |
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> strictly unnecessary details. I would expect the packagers to set up |
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> reasonable defaults in the configuration files, whenever that is |
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> possible. |
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> In this specific case, it seems to be very possible, since what I |
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> did to |
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> get mplayer to run was simply unpack the codecs.conf.gz file into |
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> .mplayer/codecs.conf of the user that should run mplayer, and it all |
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> worked okay. |
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> |
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I would have to agree whole-heartedly. I do not believe that gentoo |
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have undertaken all the effort required to setup this wonderful distro |
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with the intent of having it remain a distro that can only be |
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installed by senior linux administrators and gurus. It would require |
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relatively little effort to to add a post-install configuration |
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document to any package under the emerge/ebuild system that requires |
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manual configuration. Initially this could be just a link to the |
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appropriate authoritative documentation for the package, but |
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eventually the documentation should include instructions that can be |
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easily understood by most users. |
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