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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:14:51 Zhu Sha Zang wrote: |
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>> Em 11-10-2010 10:11, David Abbott escreveu: |
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>>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:37 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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>>>> On 10/11/10 11:24 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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>>>>> In summation, IMO the goal of the installer should be to automate and |
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>>>>> not to make it easy for newbies to install Gentoo. With that in mind, |
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>>>>> please someone work on this! :) |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> Which means it doesn't have to be GUI, right? That makes the task much |
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>>>> simpler. |
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>>>> It would be something like automating stage4, meaning storing the build |
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>>>> settings (/etc/make.conf), the list of packages |
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>>>> (/var/lib/portage/world)... and kicking off the install in one step. Or |
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>>>> something like that. |
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>>>> Which also means we can do the above step by step. A graphical installer |
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>>>> which does the half of installation and stops is useless. But a tool |
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>>>> that speeds up the manual installation by half is very useful. |
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>>> agaffney started quickstart, I am not sure of the status; |
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>>> http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php |
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>>> |
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>> Gentoo installer are useless. Please gentoo's developers: Don't waste |
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>> your time with this. |
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>> We don't need Ubuntu's Users in our forums asking nonsense questions to us. |
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>> The first step to rank better our users start in installation a little |
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>> more difficult. |
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> that is your opinion. which means you can choose to not have anything to do |
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> with it. but that doesnt mean that other people who find it useful may not |
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> work on it and get things integrated. stuff happens in Gentoo because someone |
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> finds it interesting and makes it work. |
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> -mike |
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When I started this thread, it was because someone that doesn't use |
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Gentoo, doesn't even use Linux, thinks there should be one. The person |
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that wants it is NOT willing to do anything to have one. He just wants one. |
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These are the basic questions for me. Is there anyone willing to make a |
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installer that most likely only a few will use? Given this has been |
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tried before, would it even benefit Gentoo to have one? |
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My answers, it sounds like some people want one but won't help make one |
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since it is a complex project and a moving target at that. I really |
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don't see the benefit of one myself. Getting through the install gets a |
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person over the learning curve and at least they know a little about |
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Gentoo when they get it installed. I don't care if there is a installer |
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or not but I won't use it if one is made. It seems faster to me to do |
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it manually. That's my opinion or at least part of it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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