-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Also, what's the point? Everything you use to install from the minimal > is fetched from the internet. The only thing that an updated minimal > would give us is a slightly more hardware support during the install.
This slightly more hardware support is almost always what new boxen need. Of course people can install Gentoo from another more up to date other distro, but wouldn't it be better if that were optional and not mandatory? That if people have new hardware which is not supported by their own distro, that they can pop in the latest gentoo cd and know that if there is any distro whose install cd supports their hardware, that gentoo will too? There would also be many more chances to fix things, since these images would be relatiely short lived. Since each image would be more similar than the previous one than our current 6 months apart releases are to eachother, testing could be spread out more. And our users would get more chances to help us test. Releng might not have to take a snapshot and try to stable it a la debian. Instead all developers could work together to fix bugs in stable found by users testing the install cd. Marijn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF5t+5p/VmCx0OL2wRAnoBAJ93c8wOmeVYVtDuLwVO5Qwly9sNogCfbPON 7Leo1TTCqecCdo3sFJ0huRY= =tcD4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
