"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 08/04/2012 01:20 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> Use archboot if you need hand holding. >> >> greetings >> tpowa > > No hand holding needed, just bewildered why Arch would ditch a tool that worked > perfectly well. Further, the lack of an AIF type tool just makes Arch less > likely to be tried as a distro when anyone choosing between which distro to try > reads there is no installer for Arch. Arch is a very, very good distro, > brilliant in many respects... and as such, one would expect that it would have > at least a KISS type automated install. > > I just don't understand the logic in ditching a working tool. FWIW, I've been working on "fixing" aif (I just recently got grub-bios support working in it), although it's not clear to me yet whether it needs an entire re-write or if one of the other efforts like archboot would be better to focus on, or if one of the "port-aif-to-python" efforts would be. As it is, and as was pointed out in other places, aif was pretty broken. I feel like a lot of it's brokenness might have come from trying to do too much too quick, but I don't really know. Also fwiw, I would agree with tpowa's recommendation of archboot for the moment for people who need more "hand-holding". It's a pretty solid tool. -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory
