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Well we seem to have different opinions about installers and have to |
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accept that. |
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> I'm sorry, but I feel I must weigh in here... |
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> This entire thread is pointless, since the list of available USE flags |
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> depends entirely on what portage tree is used, and the installer cannot |
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> know that until the install has already started. |
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> Having said that, the installer was *not* written to make installation |
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> easier for the user, but instead to make the process automated, to allow |
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> for mass deployments and such. Any user-friendliness you may be |
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> experiencing is simply a result of an effort on the developers' part to |
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> make it as easy on system administrators as possible. |
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> As far as the issue of reading the documentation goes, I agree with |
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> Oddball; those who can't or aren't willing to read the manual should not |
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> be using Gentoo. No matter how much you may want it to, a single |
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> distribution can't fit everybody perfectly. If a distribution tries to |
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> accommodate everyone, it will tend to die. That's just a fact of life. |
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> Deal with it. |
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> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:03 -0800, Revrend Oddball wrote: |
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>> but this would sort of sidestep the entire point of gentoo.. |
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>> from what i understand gentoo has always been about giving a user all |
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>> teh |
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>> options and the documentation to learn and act on their own. if you do |
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>> not wish |
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>> to follow this base idea then go with something else like suse or |
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>> fedora. |
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>> the rule of thumb i have always gone with if i dont know what an option |
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>> is then |
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>> i leave it the heck alone or read the manual to find out what it is. |
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>> its not like they make it hard to get a list of what the use flags are. |
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>> Maybe |
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>> instead of making them go away simply make a to the manual on use flags. |
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>> gently |
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>> suggesting to the user to rtfm but ultimately the idea is to read the |
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>> documentation. |
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