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Bryan Quigley wrote: |
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> On 1/2/06, *Andrew Gaffney* <agaffney@g.o |
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> <mailto:agaffney@g.o>> wrote: |
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> Bryan Quigley wrote: |
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> > On the Partitioning screen, have a before and after. Especially |
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> helpful |
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> > when the user is loading a previously created profile. (No "after" |
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> > until changes have been made, aka it appears once there have been |
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> changes) |
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> Huh? |
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> The After screen will indicate what setup is going to do, the before |
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> screen indicates what was there before. It gives users a better |
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> indication on what will be done. If they load a previously created |
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> setup file, it is not obvious if the creator of the setup file included |
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> partitioning information or if they have to set it up themselves. |
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I personally will not code it, and I'm the guy that does the partitioning stuff. |
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Patches are welcome ;) |
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> > On the make.conf screen is there away to negate something, aka -kde? |
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> Unchecking it effectively negates it. |
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> Replace negate with some word that has a stronger negative connotation. |
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> > Also a load make.conf button might be helpful at least for people who |
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> > already have a make.conf file. |
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> And where would this make.conf file be if they're booted from a |
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> livecd and don't |
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> have anything mounted by default? |
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> I'm assuming at least a little linux knowledge, didn't know the |
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> installer was designed for noobs. :) /sarcasm |
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> Could get it through one of the many communication applications included |
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> (ex. Firefox). How would you expect them to get the install profile there? |
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People who are using other people's install profiles should know what they're |
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doing enough to copy settings from an existing make.conf by hand. While it |
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wouldn't take much to code it, it'll be a rarely used feature. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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