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But see it with the eyes of a random Gentoo beginner. |
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You come to the "USE Flags" screen seeing some settings. You think "That |
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are surely some nice settings. Otherwise they wouldn´t be set as default". |
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But then you choose KDE. Now you have a KDE system with "+gnome -kde" as |
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USE Flags. |
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The installer should build a USE-flag suggestion out of the previous user |
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input. |
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You didn´t select samba to be installed, so the "samba" USE-Flag isn´t set |
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by default. |
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You have no xorg selected, so why suggests the installer "X" as USE-flag. |
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This is simply not right! |
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You could say. "These users should know what flags to set". |
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And some will, no doubt. But many people will say "Uhh. They have an |
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installer now. Let´s try Gentoo". (It allready started, look at some |
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tech-forums ;-)) |
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And some of these people will install a system with simply wrong USE-flags. |
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> LinuxMan wrote: |
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>> I agree with Norman, why show something if it's not relevant. It just |
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>> confuses things. Shouldn't be to hard to comment out un-related options |
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>> based on the users previous input. |
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> Because the installer has no way to know what isn't relevant. While we |
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> could |
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> hardcode the services that every package in the tree at the time of the |
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> snapshot |
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> offers and display them if that package is selected to be emerged, that's |
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> just |
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> kinda dumb. Also, this wouldn't cover the case of people using an |
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> up-to-date tree. |
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> Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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