From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FE4OZ-0002D4-DG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:56:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SCsE2M010728; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:54:14 GMT Received: from ryoko.agaffney.org (ppp-70-250-52-223.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [70.250.52.223]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SCsDmT000274 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:54:14 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.10] (kagome [192.168.0.10]) by ryoko.agaffney.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB921E00F1 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:19:27 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <44044871.200@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:56:17 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060205) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-installer@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c71ce773-9016-4573-8dc7-a57e19c33a6d X-Archives-Hash: 860c5bae21bf32c90984e77d3604120b LinuxMan wrote: > I agree with Norman, why show something if it's not relevant. It just > confuses things. Shouldn't be to hard to comment out un-related options > based on the users previous input. Because the installer has no way to know what isn't relevant. While we could hardcode the services that every package in the tree at the time of the snapshot offers and display them if that package is selected to be emerged, that's just kinda dumb. Also, this wouldn't cover the case of people using an up-to-date tree. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-installer@gentoo.org mailing list