Re: [gentoo-user] Re: stage3 only for i486?

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 04/04/2013 10:15, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
> > Well, an installer certainly would find its users. But none is perfect,
> > and writing another (imperfect) one exclusively for Gentoo is sort of
> > wasting time. A "true" Gentoo way IMO would be a selection of installers
> > on the installation medium ;-) But AFAICT it is this idea that wouldn't
> > be popular, rather than leaving no-installer at all.
>
> A true GentooWay installer would be any installer of your own choice
> that launches the shell of your chosing, accepts any stage3 tarball that
> you want and gotten from anywhere you choose to get it, and unpacked any
> place you feel like putting it. It will then run the software of your
> choice and install whatever you tell it to.
>
> That's an awful lot of "your choices" :-)
>
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> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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Isn't that exactly what the guide itself is? The only thing it doesn't make
explicit is the choice of package manager and choice of shell, though that
itself could be considered an advanced feature available to those
experienced enough to know they want the choice, who are, I would
hope, knowledgeable enough to make and enact that choice at the appropriate
point in the install. The only feature the guide lacks is a pretty point
and click interface that either over-clutters the user with options or
denies them choices they might want, which I might add, the same could be
said of portage itself.

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Joshua M. Murphy

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