[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer For Gentoo]

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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From: William Hubbs <w.hubbs@comcast.net>
To: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer For Gentoo
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:38:54 -0600

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 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.

I very much second this.  Please do not make the installer run automatically.  Instead, display a message that tells the user how to run the installer if they wish to do so.

Thanks,

William
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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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