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From: "Derek J. Belrose" <derek@×××××××××.com>
To: Justin Whitney <ripple.gentoo@××××××.be>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 05:38:08
Message-Id: 3E98F7C1.9020809@omegabyte.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer by Justin Whitney
1 Is the Mandrake install system based on RedHat's anaconda? If it is,
2 it's nicely written python...but you'll have to seriously hack it to get
3 rid of the neat little rpm stuff :)
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5 I'd be willing to help out a bit on this too...gotta get it going for
6 Gentoo-Sparc :)
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8 Derek
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10 Justin Whitney wrote:
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12 >I think some or all of Mandrake's install system is under GPL as well,
13 >so you might want to check that out.
14 >
15 >--Justin
16 >
17 >On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 19:04, Jeff Rose wrote:
18 >
19 >
20 >>Hello,
21 >> I'm pretty new to gentoo, but I am an instant convert. Just a
22 >>few months of emerge bliss and now I'm an avid supporter. Anyway, I'm
23 >>thinking about starting a summer project and I'm pondering the idea of a
24 >>gui installer. I've been looking around a bit and it doesn't look like
25 >>anyone is working on one. Is that true? If there isn't already a project
26 >>then I think I'll give it a whirl. I know, I know, gentoo is so great
27 >>because it allows you to customize and tweak the hell out of everything.
28 >>That is completely true. So, an installer would have to allow just as
29 >>much but it could take care of the mundane details for those who aren't
30 >>interested or knowledgable enough.
31 >> I haven't been around to see what people discuss in terms of the
32 >>installer so I'm sorry if this is all stuff that you have gone over
33 >>hundreds of times. Even more minimal than a gui installer, have you
34 >>thought about adding more scripts to do the standard directory setup,
35 >>download, chroot... type of stuff?
36 >> What do you think?
37 >>
38 >>-Jeff
39 >>
40 >>
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