On 04/08/12 at 08:43pm, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/04/2012 10:49 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > >> David, you are fairly active on the mailing lists, and it's amusing that > >> > you totally missed the discussions related to the removal of AIF a few > >> > weeks ago. > > More to the point, as a maintainer of a fairly complicated set of packages, > > he should be following important announcements rather than shooting of > > emails when he personally encounters the changes. Or at least looking at > > the front pages > > > > Both points well taken. I do follow - to the greatest extent possible - the > changes with arch. Even scanning the dev list, I completely glossed over the AIF > removal, thus the email. After having completed the install without it, I can > say, AIF is sorely missed. > > The install guide that is currently in the wiki, does a good job, but it is > extremely terse. The install can be done with the install wiki, but it takes an > additional level of effort and Linux understanding than with AIF (and that had > no training wheels). The current install is silent on 'swap'. I wanted a 500M > swap, so I created on with cfdisk during install and added it to fstab. Simple > issue, but it was things like that that AIF did that really helped cut down on > the time/thought required for install. > I fail to see how cutting down the thought required for an install can be considered a deficiency. It just sets low expectations about the thought required to run the distro subsequently… /J -- http://jasonwryan.com/ [GnuPG Key: B1BD4E40]
