On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:48:33AM -0400, Cory Burgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > KateOS uses a modified Slackware installer. It has both dependency > support and multiple CDs.
How much packages does it have? The problem is that in some parts you can't avoid O(n^2) and Frugalware has ATM 4366 binary packages on i686, so speed does matter. > > > The C installer is much larger and more complicated than an installer > > > needs > > > to be, and while it appears to be well designed, it is unnecessarily > > > complex and therefore bug-prone and difficult to maintain. > > > > Please don't estimate how hard is to maintain till you haven't walked in > > our shoes. > > I've attempted several times to write bugfixes for it. It likes to > segfault at seemingly random times, and it's not always reproduceable. One tricky part is when a bug appears on a real machine but in qemu. That is hard. But once you can repruduce in qemu (usually this is the case) the missing part usually is to just write down what you need to do to reproduce the bug (step by step), and that's what usually we do not get from users. A positive example is voroskoi, I remember he sent several such bugreports: just did various odd steps back and forward in the installer, noted down what he did, and finally when he managed to segfault it, hit 'bt' in gdb. I was happy to fix such bugs, as I did not have to waste hours with trying to reproduce them. > Nope, unfortunately for us folks in the US, you're not kidding :p Actually either outside the US, the same $100 you get from Google Ads now has about half of value here (compared to 2-3 years ago), due to this. :-/
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