Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30325 - nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools

2011-11-10 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from ludo's message of Wed Nov 09 23:50:19 +0100 2011: Making it easy for newcomers is also a worthy goal though. How about having a higher-level tool, say ‘nixos-kde-install’, which would do what nixos-hardware-scan plus add whatever options are needed for KDE? We all want make it

Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30325 - nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools

2011-11-08 Thread Nicolas Pierron
Hi Eelco, The goal of this was to simplify the task for new comers, and avoid them the pain of selecting what they need. Profile are made to be separated from the ISO, and thus to be used in such as way. I think this modification has proved to be useful and I don't want it to be removed, even

Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30325 - nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools

2011-11-08 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 11/08/2011 01:05 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote: The goal of this was to simplify the task for new comers, and avoid them the pain of selecting what they need. I agree with that goal, but it's completely wrong for nixos-hardware-scan to do that. The only thing that that script should do

Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30325 - nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools

2011-11-08 Thread Eelco Dolstra
On 11/08/2011 01:45 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: On 11/08/2011 01:05 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote: The goal of this was to simplify the task for new comers, and avoid them the pain of selecting what they need. I agree with that goal, but it's completely wrong for nixos-hardware-scan to do

Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30325 - nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools

2011-11-08 Thread Nicolas Pierron
Hi, On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 19:45, Eelco Dolstra e.dols...@tudelft.nl wrote: Hi, On 11/08/2011 01:05 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote: The goal of this was to simplify the task for new comers, and avoid them the pain of selecting what they need. I agree with that goal, but it's completely wrong