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On 22 Jun 2003 15:34:14 +0200 |
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Philippe Lafoucrière <lafou@×××××××.fr> wrote: |
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> Now we have to define fonctionnalities of this new utility. I propose |
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> a basic select/install/deinstall utility for the first release. |
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Hm, actually I always considered package managment a rather low priority |
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for a tool like this or even a tool on it's own. |
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What I'd love to see is something to replace the clutter of tools |
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currently present (mirrorselect, ufed, the various -confifgs etc.) for |
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gentoo specific tasks in on single tool, "Emergency" (my first name |
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proposal), "gentoo-config" or whatever name we decide on. |
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Also the task of installing packages in a GUI is already covered by |
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several projects (for a console version you can use the scripts from |
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Optilude found on forums.gentoo.org), but something similar to |
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/stand/sysinstall is not present and besides our talking not in the |
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planning AFAIK. |
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So maybe a good point to start would be _new_ functionality like a GUI |
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for setting various settings in /etc/make.conf (portdir overlay, |
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features, rsync retries etc.) and then start working on integrating |
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functionality currently provided by the other tools. |
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I'm not even sure anymore if I want to see package managment included in |
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this unified tool, as from my point of view a full featured package |
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manager is a project worth it's on program. But regarding this I'm open |
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for argument and other people's opinion. |
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My 2 cents, |
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Michael |
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