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so i was tooling along the road thinking about what it would take for people |
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to sit down and use Gentoo/embedded for the target ... currently we have misc |
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ways of doing this by hand (install mask/etc...), but it tends to be error |
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prone and it requires the end user to know more than they should about the |
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portage environment |
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what would help here is a frontend ... something like uClinux or Open Embedded |
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where a menu system allows the user to select the packages to install into |
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the target image and when they're done, they simply type 'make' ... wait a |
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bit and they're left with images that they can take and flash onto the target |
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board |
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so really, a friendly frontend for the user to select the characteristics of |
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the system, and then a backend to take that config and use emerge to build |
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everything and generate an image ... would make it easy to create stock board |
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descriptions too ... |
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what do you guys think ? stupid idea ? good idea waiting for a champion ? |
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-mike |