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>> Why bash script (the install script), that works in "Debian", does |
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>> not |
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>> work on "Gentoo" install CD, giving me syntax errors (basically |
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>> related to '(', ')' and ''')? In the script is the interpreter line |
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>> #!/bin/bash |
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> You say that line appears in both scripts, but is it the first line? |
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> Unaccompanied and not preceded by anything? |
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Yes, it is just a copy from "Debian". |
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>> PS Why no semi/full -automatic install script/package in "Gentoo"? |
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> It doesn't work that way. Gentoo is all about choice, and that |
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> includes |
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> choice of what is installed, and where and when. You have to make |
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> those |
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> choices. Even choosing what sort of system is installed (multi-lib, |
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> hardened, synchronised via git or rsync, ...). All in the name of |
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> flexibility and doing one's own thing. |
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All those choices could be handled while auto install process -- just |
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as other distro-s do, only with that exception, that the chosen |
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packages are compiled first and only then get installed. At least, the |
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"base" profile (just working kernel, package manager, network) would |
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fit to get automatically installed "Gentoo" system leaving all the |
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spectrum of choices behind installation process. -- I do not think it |
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is wise to spend hours just to configure system before compilation |
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process itself, reading all the time manual, even let be the |
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truncated page of that manual. Computers are all about automation, and |
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trivial process regarding its working should be automated. The best |
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approach would be checklists of checklists -- similar to kernel's |
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configuration, that once chosen, gets compiling, installing -- all |
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automatically. There even sets like all is included -- to bother not |
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for the unconcerned. |
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But something tells me the reason of absence of the installer are |
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much deeper. |
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Sthu. |