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On 28 July 2017 at 20:15, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Gotta be honest here. I really don't think Gentoo is for you. |
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> If you don't understand why the exponential amount of work that it takes |
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> to be able to support each additional choice that Gentoo does is hard to |
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> codify into a single automated installer, I'm just going to say that this |
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> is going to be a hard point to get across. |
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>> Computers are all about automation, and |
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>> trivial process regarding its working should be automated. The best |
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>> approach would be checklists of checklists |
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> Let's just say that someone has to code and test all of the automated |
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> behavior behind every combination of checklist across every combination of |
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> package, and he's going to have a very thankless job, given that simply |
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> getting one combination of packages through a basic checklist might take an |
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> entire day if the compiler gods are kind. |
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> As an addition to this, gentoo is a meta-distribution. The process of |
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installing gentoo might be better understood in the context of creating |
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your own distro. Automating this has been tried before, but depending on |
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your point of view, this might or might not make sense to even try to do. |
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