Re: version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer

Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:56:17 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.installer
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LinuxMan wrote:
> I agree with Norman, why show something if it's not relevant. It just
> confuses things. Shouldn't be to hard to comment out un-related options
> based on the users previous input.

Because the installer has no way to know what isn't relevant. While we could 
hardcode the services that every package in the tree at the time of the snapshot 
offers and display them if that package is selected to be emerged, that's just 
kinda dumb. Also, this wouldn't cover the case of people using an up-to-date tree.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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