From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:20:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4404B07E.4040406@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4404ADED.9060801@smash-net.org>
Norman Rieß wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz schrieb:
>
>>
>>
>> The portage team just got rid of exactly this capability for creating
>> difficult to reproduce USE flag setups, because they were dynamic, based
>> on what's installed rather than set unconditionally in make.conf.
>>
>> So it's a difficult argument to say we should re-add it into the
>> installer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Donnie
>>
>>
>>
> Why difficult to reproduce? Same software should create same USE-flag
> settings.
> I find it a little funny, that an official installer installes a perhaps
> not working system "by default".
> I think that misses the point of an installer!
USE flags control optional stuff. If something doesn't work because of a missing
USE flag, that's a bug with that particular ebuild.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 3:14 [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer Andrew Gaffney
2006-02-27 4:38 ` Kannan Shah
2006-02-27 5:00 ` Andrew Gaffney
2006-02-27 21:08 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-27 21:15 ` Andrew Gaffney
2006-02-27 21:33 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-28 9:39 ` LinuxMan
2006-02-28 12:56 ` Andrew Gaffney
2006-02-28 15:34 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-28 15:52 ` Simon Stelling
2006-02-28 16:00 ` Andrew Gaffney
2006-02-28 16:38 ` LinuxMan
2006-02-28 16:44 ` Ashley McConnell
2006-02-28 16:56 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-28 17:00 ` Andrew Gaffney
2006-02-28 19:46 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-28 19:54 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-02-28 20:09 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-28 20:20 ` Andrew Gaffney [this message]
2006-02-28 20:26 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-28 22:03 ` Revrend Oddball
2006-03-01 3:27 ` Ben Urban
2006-03-01 7:33 ` Norman Rieß
2006-02-27 22:11 ` Norman Rieß
[not found] <44059915.6080407@gentoo.org>
2006-03-01 13:27 ` LinuxMan
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