Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-25 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Tobias Klausmann wrote: Hi! On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Markos Chandras wrote: On 25 March 2013 09:30, Tobias Klausmann wrote: I'll say it again: if we don't make install media anymore and tell people to use SRCD instead, we will lose installation support for at least alpha, pp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-25 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 25 March 2013 09:30, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > I'll say it again: if we don't make install media anymore and > > tell people to use SRCD instead, we will lose installation > > support for at least alpha, ppc/64, hppa and ia64. As for sparc,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-25 Thread Markos Chandras
On 25 March 2013 09:30, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I'll say it again: if we don't make install media anymore and > tell people to use SRCD instead, we will lose installation > support for at least alpha, ppc/64, hppa and ia64. As for sparc, > mips and arm, there _might_ be alternatives, but I'm not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-25 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Duncan wrote: > Samuli Suominen posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:32:22 +0200 as excerpted: > > > imho we should contact the sysrescuecd developers and suggest more close > > cooperation, such that it could be called official install media in > > gentoo-terms > > I've wonde

Re: Installing KDE (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed)

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > We (as the kde team) are modifying the profiles/targets/desktop/kde settings > so if you pick a kde profile you can immediately emerge kde without further > fiddling with useflags. That will be ideal, but I was more concerned with the

Installing KDE (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed)

2013-03-24 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 11:04:11 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > For an educational experience unpack a stage3 in a chroot and try to > emerge kde or gnome. Then try it again two weeks later. This is what > our new users experi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-24 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 10:05:54 schrieb Duncan: > Thus definitely ++. > > The one big concern I have is that in our approach to the srcd folks we > make clear we're *NOT* attempting to take over their project. That's the > sensitivity I see with the co-branded idea. I'd actually prefer that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into creating > its own install media, when there's many dedicated projects out there > whose whole purpose is live install/rescue media. Tend to agree. I'd focus mor

[gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

2013-03-24 Thread Duncan
Samuli Suominen posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:32:22 +0200 as excerpted: > imho we should contact the sysrescuecd developers and suggest more close > cooperation, such that it could be called official install media in > gentoo-terms I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into c