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On 2015-08-04, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Felix Miata <mrmazda <at> earthlink.net> writes: |
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>> 1-I just find upgrade processes more enjoyable than inital installations and |
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>> their follow-up tedium getting from defaults back to the way I like things |
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>> to work. |
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>> Now that I've seen several thread responses subsequent to this one, I'm |
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>> leaning towared just doing a fresh installation, but I'm curious about what |
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>> would happen by trying, and how long it really would take. |
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> Interesting choice:: how do you like your choices, Felix? |
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> To the wider list of gentoo hacks:: |
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> Still think we do not need an easier installation semantic? If he decides to |
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> 'upgrade' there will be tons of man-hours spent on this effort. If we had a |
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> mostly unattended basic installation semantic (proceedure/install) I bet he |
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> (Felix) would choose that pathway. |
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I've tried that pathway. Many times. The "mostly unattended" |
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installers all install things I don't want, pick options I don't like, |
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and end up configured to do things the way the authors of the |
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installer wanted to do things rather than the way I want to do things. |
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> If we (gentoo) had a simple installation semantic, this sort of |
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> problem would most likely disappear; so the wider community could |
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> delve into other technical support issues...... YMMV. |
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There are tons of options for "a simple installation semantic" if |
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that's what people want. I don't see any benefit in turning Gentoo |
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into yet another "me too" one-click installation trying to compete |
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with RedHat and Ubuntu. |
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