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On Friday 11 January 2008, Qian Qiao wrote: |
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> ack to the installation CD issue, undoubtably, having a nice working |
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> installation CD for gentoo is desirable, but is it really needed? We |
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> are here to do what we are best at. |
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> LiveCD creators, Knoppix, for example, are good at creating liveCDs |
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> and keeping hardware support on those CDs up-to-date etc etc, we |
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> should take advantage of it. |
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> Gentoo has a huge package repository, I'd much rather see the devs |
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> focus on making that better, cos that's what they are good at. |
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Reading this, I had a thought: Most of the stuff available in gentoo |
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comes from some upstream place in the grand Free Software tradition. |
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Considering that an installation LiveCD is really just a temporary |
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bootable image that writes stuff to the disk (and that stuff happily |
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turns out to be a permanent bootable image), how about we just treat |
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Knoppix as an upstream package and add a relatively simple program to |
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do the installation? |
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Essentially, it will ask some questions and unpack a stage 3/4 then tell |
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the user to go and read 'man emerge' |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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