On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, I was teasing. I'm in so much agreement with the logic and the end result you're suggesting, that if asked I'll claim I'm the original proponent. -- Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
