>From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most curious to read other folk's ideas (strategies) to create a more automated installation semantic for installing gentoo systems. The handbook is fine; in fact it is great. But, many gentoo users that have performed more than a dozen gentoo installs sooner or later get around to their own installations customizations for a wide variety of valid reasons.
Ansible would lend itself to expanded and very targeted types of system installs where an accomplished gentoo user could supplement the base install with a collection of specific packages and config settings; imho. Say for example a secure web or mail server, not that it would be the only way to build such a server, but just one specific method a particular author wanted to (share) publish. Surely there are other and better ideas that folks have used or that they are currently contemplating for routine gentoo installs? Maybe some discussion herein could help shape the efforts of [2,3]? Naturally, we should remember Release Engineering and their role as pivotal [3]. [1 and 2] are interesting to read. James [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Installer [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS
