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Is the Mandrake install system based on RedHat's anaconda? If it is, |
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it's nicely written python...but you'll have to seriously hack it to get |
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rid of the neat little rpm stuff :) |
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I'd be willing to help out a bit on this too...gotta get it going for |
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Gentoo-Sparc :) |
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Derek |
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Justin Whitney wrote: |
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>I think some or all of Mandrake's install system is under GPL as well, |
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>so you might want to check that out. |
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>--Justin |
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>On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 19:04, Jeff Rose wrote: |
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>>Hello, |
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>> I'm pretty new to gentoo, but I am an instant convert. Just a |
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>>few months of emerge bliss and now I'm an avid supporter. Anyway, I'm |
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>>thinking about starting a summer project and I'm pondering the idea of a |
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>>gui installer. I've been looking around a bit and it doesn't look like |
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>>anyone is working on one. Is that true? If there isn't already a project |
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>>then I think I'll give it a whirl. I know, I know, gentoo is so great |
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>>because it allows you to customize and tweak the hell out of everything. |
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>>That is completely true. So, an installer would have to allow just as |
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>>much but it could take care of the mundane details for those who aren't |
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>>interested or knowledgable enough. |
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>> I haven't been around to see what people discuss in terms of the |
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>>installer so I'm sorry if this is all stuff that you have gone over |
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>>hundreds of times. Even more minimal than a gui installer, have you |
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>>thought about adding more scripts to do the standard directory setup, |
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>>download, chroot... type of stuff? |
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>> What do you think? |
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>>-Jeff |
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