Gentoo Archives: gentoo-installer

From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:03:33
Message-Id: 44037911.9000808@smash-net.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer by Andrew Gaffney
1 Andrew Gaffney schrieb:
2
3 > Norman Rieß wrote:
4 >
5 >> Hello
6 >>
7 >> Great Installer. I tried it right after i finished downloading the
8 >> 2006.0.
9 >> But i have a question though. I recognized that the use flags are set
10 >> to "X" and "Gnome" (and so on) by default.
11 >> Later in the "Extra Packages" screen you can choose other desktop
12 >> environments or perhaps no x at all.
13 >>
14 >> Would it not be nice, if the flags are set after you choose your
15 >> desktop environment or the other packages?
16 >> If one chooses KDE as desktop the useflag could switch from gnome to
17 >> kde. If no x11 is chosen, the flag isn´t set so "+X" either.
18 >
19 >
20 > This is the same as doing an install by hand.
21
22 I don´t see why this is.
23
24 >
25 >> Same thing on the "Startup Services". I can choose some daemons to
26 >> start up, that are not even installed. I find this a little disturbing.
27 >
28 >
29 > Well, it's not possible to know services will be available beforehand,
30 > so we just give you a bunch of common options (along with adding
31 > custom ones in the future). Ones that don't exist will be ignored
32 > during the install.
33 >
34 True, but if i do not click the ProFTPd in the selection screen, you can
35 assume, that there is no ProFTPd installed to start automatically. This
36 way you can filter out not all, but some unlogic choices.
37
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