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On Thursday 29 January 2004 22:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Thursday 29 January 2004 18:51, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > So, thoughts? |
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> I think we must focus on what kind of installer we are going to work. Do we |
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> want an installer that can be used for automated installs (in which this |
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> would be a great idea), or do we want an interactive installer for single |
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> installs (where splitscreen console access is valueable). Or do we want |
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> both? |
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> If we want both, how are we going to integrate that. Can the backend |
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> perform partial scripts? Further how would it integrate with generic gentoo |
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> confiration tools? |
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Can the BE support pausing after every step if the FE requests it? Would that |
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be enough to allow an interactive process? The FE can provide a console |
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between steps if it wants. |
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BTW the status updates the BE emits include (if requested) the output of the |
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commands it runs (esp. compiles), right? |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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