Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer For Gentoo

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:10, Stephen Clowater wrote:
> The configurations that are detected would only be the defaults, any
> user who wanted to change them, or bypass the entire install
> alltogether, could still do so. Indeed, you could specify a boot option
> like noinstaller and do the install the old way, or flip over to another
> vc  (the installer would presumably be on vc/1) and continue the install
> by the guide instead of the installer.
> 
> Its important to note the last thing that an installer would do would be
> to impose itself on the user. Its purpose is to provide some level of
> confort and prettyness for those who would like it, and to detect the
> most optimal defaults for a system, however, not to take away from the
> user the ability to change these defaults.

I think a  much better way of even thinking about this would be rather
than running the installer at all, the user would type "install" or
"setup" at a prompt to start it.

> hmmm, perhaps having global use flags based on the selected packages,
> but have each package have the ability to override those USE flags when
> slelected? (default setting would be whatever global USE is)

Per-package USE flags is being worked on, but won't be around for a long
time.  USE should never be determined by installed packages, but rather
always by the user.

netcat is a much better tool for such a task.  I think I can speak for
most of us when I say that we feel very strongly about never adding
telnet to the default profiles, as it is simply inviting trouble.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

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