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On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 00:24:09 +0700, Ста Деюс wrote: |
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>> But something tells me the reason of absence of the installer are |
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>> much deeper. |
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> Yes, it is that no one has felt the need to devote the considerable |
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> amount of time needed to code and test an installer that takes into |
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> account the far wider range of choices in Gentoo. |
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While there are some that consider the lack of an installer some kind |
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of virtue, I think you've really hit the crux of it here. There is no |
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reason that Gentoo couldn't have an installer that at least gives you |
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a default stage3 to start from, or a few alternative options. |
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However, in the end it requires that somebody actually build it. From |
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what I've seen when this issue comes up people fall into two |
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categories: |
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1. People who really want an installer because they're struggling to |
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get Gentoo working. Well, if they struggle to get it working chances |
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are they're going to struggle even more to build an installer for |
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everybody else to use. |
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2. People who could build an installer if they wanted to, but they |
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don't really need to, because they either are happy with doing it |
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manually, or already have some rough scripts that are good enough for |
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them. |
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Nobody is going to "ban" a Gentoo installer, and there have been |
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points in time where people have worked on one. However, until |
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somebody actually both wants to build one and is able to build one we |
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probably won't have one. That isn't some kind of policy - it is just |
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the reality of how volunteer FOSS projects work. |
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Rich |
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