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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On 04/04/2013 10:15, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: |
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> > Well, an installer certainly would find its users. But none is perfect, |
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> > and writing another (imperfect) one exclusively for Gentoo is sort of |
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> > wasting time. A "true" Gentoo way IMO would be a selection of installers |
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> > on the installation medium ;-) But AFAICT it is this idea that wouldn't |
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> > be popular, rather than leaving no-installer at all. |
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> A true GentooWay installer would be any installer of your own choice |
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> that launches the shell of your chosing, accepts any stage3 tarball that |
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> you want and gotten from anywhere you choose to get it, and unpacked any |
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> place you feel like putting it. It will then run the software of your |
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> choice and install whatever you tell it to. |
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> That's an awful lot of "your choices" :-) |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Isn't that exactly what the guide itself is? The only thing it doesn't make |
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explicit is the choice of package manager and choice of shell, though that |
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itself could be considered an advanced feature available to those |
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experienced enough to know they want the choice, who are, I would |
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hope, knowledgeable enough to make and enact that choice at the appropriate |
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point in the install. The only feature the guide lacks is a pretty point |
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and click interface that either over-clutters the user with options or |
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denies them choices they might want, which I might add, the same could be |
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said of portage itself. |
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