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James 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. Felix, care to comment? |
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> If we (gentoo) had a simple installation semantic, this sort of problem |
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> would most likely disappear; so the wider community could delve into other |
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> technical support issues...... YMMV. |
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> James |
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For me, it wouldn't matter if Gentoo had a installer or not. It still |
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would be faster to do a fresh install even without a installer. So, it |
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doesn't matter really. Most of the install time is waiting on a |
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compile, especially on a older and slower machine. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |