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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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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