Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project

2015-07-20 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:51:00 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2015-07-18, o godz. 12:01:48 > Matthew Marchese napisał(a): > > > I have recently pressed the reboot button on the ol' Installer project. > > I've been able to talk to quite a few developers one-on-one via IRC > > concerning my plans

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project

2015-07-20 Thread Sebastian Pipping
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20.07.2015 10:51, Michał Górny wrote: > [..] I think we'd really benefit from having some kind of helper > scripts / checklist of tasks to be done prior to/after install. > > For example, you'd run 'check-my-install' script and it'd tell you > what

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project

2015-07-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > I personally don't think Gentoo needs installer as-is. However, I think > we'd really benefit from having some kind of helper scripts / checklist > of tasks to be done prior to/after install. I think something that would be really useful is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reverted python3.4 defaults

2015-07-20 Thread Jason Zaman
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:39:25AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> I don't see any strong technical reason to switch from python2 + > >> python3 to python2-only enabled. Some people don't like having two > >> versions of python installed --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project

2015-07-20 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-07-18, o godz. 12:01:48 Matthew Marchese napisał(a): > I have recently pressed the reboot button on the ol' Installer project. I've > been able to talk to quite a few developers one-on-one via IRC concerning my > plans. Most seem to be in support of Gentoo having a "official" installe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reverted python3.4 defaults

2015-07-20 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> I don't see any strong technical reason to switch from python2 + >> python3 to python2-only enabled. Some people don't like having two >> versions of python installed -- that's about the gist of it. > > Indeed, there is no strong technical re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project

2015-07-20 Thread Luca Barbato
On 18/07/15 21:01, Matthew Marchese wrote: > I'd like to hear it all so please speak your mind. Looking forward to > hearing from you. The plan is good, having multiple backends is a boon since then you can have large install images and tiny install images. An installer is basically covering part