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On 03.04.2013 23:36, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> The reason I say Gentoo shouldn't worry about installers is that the |
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> typical person installing Gentoo already knows about chroots. Someone |
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> who doesn't is unlikely to consider Gentoo at all (unless they are |
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> looking to rice, but we long since moved past that). |
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As for me, the Gentoo installation process is really much easier than |
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that of some installer-based distros. Regardless of knowledge of what |
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chroot is, if one follows the (very well written and detailed) |
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installation docs, he'd get Gentoo installed with far less effort than |
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trying to make out what all these fancy buttons and menus mean in a |
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graphical installer. |
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And from an already-user-of-another-distro point of view, it's even more |
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attractive that he can install and tune Gentoo from his |
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already-installed linux, not even wasting time writing CDs, booting and |
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stuff. |
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And the guys around here confirmed that they hadn't had problems with |
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chroot :) |
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> This idea will of course not be popular, I'll be told I'm trying to be |
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> elitist, and so the search for the perfect installer will continue unabated |
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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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Regarding elitism, can the absence of an installer be considered elite? |
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:) I'd rather call 'elite' e.g. the OpenSUSE installer (a claim for |
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elite, at least). |
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Probably it's time for me to agree with the 'Gentoo is what it is' |
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pattern I had argued against a month ago. =) |
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Best wishes, |
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Yuri K. Shatroff |