On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:10, Stephen Clowater wrote: > The configurations that are detected would only be the defaults, any > user who wanted to change them, or bypass the entire install > alltogether, could still do so. Indeed, you could specify a boot option > like noinstaller and do the install the old way, or flip over to another > vc (the installer would presumably be on vc/1) and continue the install > by the guide instead of the installer. > > Its important to note the last thing that an installer would do would be > to impose itself on the user. Its purpose is to provide some level of > confort and prettyness for those who would like it, and to detect the > most optimal defaults for a system, however, not to take away from the > user the ability to change these defaults.
I think a much better way of even thinking about this would be rather than running the installer at all, the user would type "install" or "setup" at a prompt to start it. > hmmm, perhaps having global use flags based on the selected packages, > but have each package have the ability to override those USE flags when > slelected? (default setting would be whatever global USE is) Per-package USE flags is being worked on, but won't be around for a long time. USE should never be determined by installed packages, but rather always by the user. netcat is a much better tool for such a task. I think I can speak for most of us when I say that we feel very strongly about never adding telnet to the default profiles, as it is simply inviting trouble. -- Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a pengiun?
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