Re: [gentoo-dev] Livecd, python, pyopengl and broken gtk installer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Livecd, python, pyopengl and broken gtk installer

[Steev Klimaszewski]

Dominique Michel wrote:
> It seam at it is a big problem with the livecd.
> 
>>From the forum:
> QUOTE:  The problem is you can't use the GTK installer due to this problem. It
> crashes out and leaves you with no option but to wash, rinse, repeat, re-crash.
> 
> By saying they won't fix the bug the developers have decided to make the
> graphical installer a waste of effort. In my case I went in and installed the
> old fashoned way (never HAVE gotten that graphical POS to work), but for anyone
> who is trying out Gentoo and hasn't done this a few hundred times before
> they're out of luck.
> 
> Bad for them, bad for the community, bad for Gentoo, bad for Linux.
> 
> Do these guys work in Redmond now? ENDQUOTE
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-477582-start-25.html
> 
>>From bugzilla:
> 
> QUOTE: And we still won't and can't fix it. All the livecd stuff is just a
> snapshot of portage tree in a given moment. There's been one use flag, changed
> meanwhile -> emerge --sync, re-emerge python and stop ranting here. ENDQUOTE
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147809
> 
> I have done a search on bugzilla, and it is other bug report where problems
> with the livecd have been fixed, so I just don't understand why this one want
> be fixed, and I am just too tired to argue on it. It say all time the same
> thing, do a sync and re emerge python. With the livecd?...
> 
> So here is the problem: the livecd gtk installer is broken and it must be
> fixed. But no one seam to be willing to do so. So, when I read such comments on
> the forum, I think at it will be better to remove this livecd from the servers.
> It is better to have no publicity as a bad publicity.
> 
The gtk installer is NOT broken.  Have you tried to install without the
tk/tcl/tcltk use flag?  Personally, I installed with the default flags
set, in fact, I told it networkless install and was up and running in
about 40 minutes (366MHz) - The installer works, but not every single
USE flag combination can be tested.  You can *always* change a flag
after you have the system installed.
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