From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24462 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Apr 2003 05:05:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19646 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2003 05:05:19 -0000 From: Justin Whitney To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050210300.11741.1.camel@osiris.ripple.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 13 Apr 2003 01:05:00 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer X-Archives-Salt: 006be2d0-95c3-4aa0-b818-b7e4a90e82ca X-Archives-Hash: 4f648adabc5c57d577447d46c19bb523 I think some or all of Mandrake's install system is under GPL as well, so you might want to check that out. --Justin On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 19:04, Jeff Rose wrote: > Hello, > I'm pretty new to gentoo, but I am an instant convert. Just a > few months of emerge bliss and now I'm an avid supporter. Anyway, I'm > thinking about starting a summer project and I'm pondering the idea of a > gui installer. I've been looking around a bit and it doesn't look like > anyone is working on one. Is that true? If there isn't already a project > then I think I'll give it a whirl. I know, I know, gentoo is so great > because it allows you to customize and tweak the hell out of everything. > That is completely true. So, an installer would have to allow just as > much but it could take care of the mundane details for those who aren't > interested or knowledgable enough. > I haven't been around to see what people discuss in terms of the > installer so I'm sorry if this is all stuff that you have gone over > hundreds of times. Even more minimal than a gui installer, have you > thought about adding more scripts to do the standard directory setup, > download, chroot... type of stuff? > What do you think? > > -Jeff > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list