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On 13:19 Mon 11 Jul , wiktor w brodlo wrote: |
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> So far everything the installer is on time and does all the things |
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> that it was meant to do according to the proposal. Some things were |
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> simplified, others required more work than I expected; however, |
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> overall the installer does now install a working Gentoo with an X |
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> server and a desktop environment (the latter might be buggy at times |
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> as I've not yet had a chance to test all the DEs). |
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Could you post a screenshot gallery of each page in the installer so we |
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can see what it looks like? |
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> As a long-term goal, I'd like to move all the packages from |
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> anaconda-overlay to the official Portage tree. Some of the packages |
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> are already there, like GRUB and OpeniSCSI but Anaconda needs some |
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> specific patches for these packages to work – in such case I'd like to |
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> add the patches. I'm looking for volunteers that would like to |
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> maintain some of these packages – there are 24 packages in the tree |
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> and I don't think I'll be able to maintain them all AND the installer |
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> (of course some of them will be removed/merged). |
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Most packages are pretty easy to maintain, actually, because the |
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"typical" package is relatively simply and doesn't release that often. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux and X.Org |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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