Re: version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer

But see it with the eyes of a random Gentoo beginner.
You come to the "USE Flags" screen seeing some settings. You think "That
are surely some nice settings. Otherwise they wouldn=B4t be set as defaul=
t".
But then you choose KDE. Now you have a KDE system with "+gnome -kde" as
USE Flags.

The installer should build a USE-flag suggestion out of the previous user
input.
You didn=B4t select samba to be installed, so the "samba" USE-Flag isn=B4=
t set
by default.
You have no xorg selected, so why suggests the installer "X" as USE-flag.
This is simply not right!

You could say. "These users should know what flags to set".
And some will, no doubt. But many people will say "Uhh. They have an
installer now. Let=B4s try Gentoo". (It allready started, look at some
tech-forums ;-))
And some of these people will install a system with simply wrong USE-flag=
s.


> 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 option=
s
>> 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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ey/
> Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Proj=
ect
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