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> If someone made an Arch installer that automatically set up networking and persisted the setup, as well as partitioning/mounting, I would be on board. But then, it wouldn't be Arch any more. There'll inevitably come a user that wants a different partition scheme not contemplated (nfs /home? LUKS? LVM across all present drives? etc). As far a networking: it's even worse. There's several choices of what you can use to manage your network (wicd, NetworkManager, netctl etc). An installer that supports all those, with all possible network configurations, would be a huge pain. It's just easier if the user picks a tool, installs it, and configures it. It'll also help you greatly in future when you need to reconfigure it, fiddle around, of break it. > Maybe if you're a full-time sysadmin you're familiar enough with ifconfig, fstab etc. No need for ifconfig, you do have a lot of helpers, as mentioned above. |
The old no installer way could still be present. Just give people an option, is what I'm getting at. I'm pretty sure you can manually configure everything in the Debian installer if you choose to.
Your point about networking - there being multiple tools and letting the user choose which to use - is more understandable. However, it's still something I've come to expect to configure once and never again (apart from choosing which wifi to connect to when I'm at a new place).