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On Friday 11 April 2003 06:04 pm, 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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One thing to consider, obviously you're going to probably have some type of |
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cli based portage viewer/installer as part of it- It would be worthwhile to |
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break the cli portage manager off into a seperate package. |
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I'm curious how high/low level you're intending for the installer. On par w/ |
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redhat's server/workstation/custom, or on par w/ debian's? |
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~harring |
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