On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 13:42 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 12:09 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > > I think it's in *everyone's* interests for distributions to collaborate > > > where it makes sense. A decent USB writing tool is just a box all > > > distros should be checking, and which we're currently all not checking > > > while simultaneously wastefully spending separate resources on. A USB > > > writing tool is really not a big enough deal to be a 'selling point' > > > for a distribution, it's something we should just get together and > > > maintain collaboratively to be more efficient and avoid the situation > > > where we all have a half-assed tool that isn't maintained half the time > > > and so people wind up using unetbootin or Rufus, failing, and deciding > > > Linux sucks. > > > > Hell, if we did it right, maybe we could kill rufus and unetbootin, at > > least for Linux purposes. Some third party could do a build of the tool > > with generic branding, and combining all the distro image lists. It > > seems that third-party USB writing tools are going to exist no matter > > what we do; if that's the case I'd much rather have one which was just > > a build of sensible, dd-style code we have a hand in maintaining, > > rather than the pile of crappy fail that is unetbootin. > > Whoaa! Calm down! That is such high order wishful thinking. I love > this kind of irrational exuberance though. Getting older is so much > fun. > > Then: Cool! I just invented the goddamn wheel! BadASS! > > Now: Make it go. And, make it go, without poking me in the eyeball. We're already writing all the hard bits. Making it possible to switch out the branding and the image metadata location really isn't a hard problem. (OK, you can have lots of fun deciding on a format for the image metadata that makes all the distros happy, but that's what mailing lists are for...) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
