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The only problem I see with doing this is how to represent it in a user |
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anaconda, you could have the power user abilities under "Amazing super |
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power user" setting :) |
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Grabbing the processor isn't difficult, build a small database of known |
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processors and compare it to /proc/cpuinfo. |
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At this point, what would you use for a install? Stage1, 2 or 3? Stage |
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3 would be the quickest in my opinion as well giving the user a really |
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good launching pad for an optimized system. |
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Cliff Free wrote: |
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>I think a GUI installer would be great if done correctly. The |
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>interface, obviously, should be easy to use, but in the spirit of |
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>Gentoo, shouldn't limit the user with what he can do. On a side note, I |
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>also think it would be cool to have the ability to detect the processor |
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>type(s) and include some optimization flags for the detected |
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>processor(s) (I also feel this feature should be able to be toggled so |
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>hard-core power-users would still have the option to fine-tune to their |
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>heart's content, and that by default the feature would be OFF. Maybee |
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>the detection system would only augment CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS in |
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>make.conf. and/or make.conf settings would override what's detected.) |
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>Just my 2 cents worth. Doing this correctly could prove to be a |
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>On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 01:38, Derek J. Belrose wrote: |
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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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>>>I think some or all of Mandrake's install system is under GPL as well, |
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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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>>>>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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>>>> 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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>>>>-Jeff |
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