From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8919 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Apr 2003 23:13:36 -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 17637 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2003 23:13:36 -0000 From: Alec Berryman To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3E99E5D2.9060804@omegabyte.com> References: <3E99CA3C.2020306@omegabyte.com> <1050272798.23398.18.camel@Jester.poody.net> <3E99E5D2.9060804@omegabyte.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gRn0bRFZESxbjbJKXw1O" Organization: Message-Id: <1050275603.16939.37.camel@melvin.lorax.wox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 13 Apr 2003 18:13:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer X-Archives-Salt: 7c186e5d-216e-4ecf-8f86-43f4792ca6d1 X-Archives-Hash: 27ee4444f825deb21546f84ecf4ab8c7 --=-gRn0bRFZESxbjbJKXw1O Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 17:33, Derek J. Belrose wrote: > Well the X install is in the future it seems. I think gentoo would=20 > benefit from a cli install/package manager more than it currently has. > It should work over serial line consoles as well as local displays. > It should be really easy for a beginner, yet possible for the most=20 > advanced user to take control at any point. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=3D275364#275364 Yesterday "optilude" posted a "fast and flexible curses ebuild browser" to the Gentoo Forums. Requiring only bash and dialog, it would easily fit onto the traditionally minimal Gentoo install CD and alongside ufed and mirrorselect. More importantly, because it works directly through emerge (emerge `ebb` is the suggested invocation), using this ebuild browser would preserve flexibility in the Gentoo install: for those who would prefer to stick with the traditional emerge command-line interface, this browser would not interfere with complete control over emerge, but for those who do want the browser it is easily accessible.=20 Give it a shot. --=20 Alec Berryman --=-gRn0bRFZESxbjbJKXw1O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+me8TFzqxRt+zZvIRAoPPAJ0VLIVUaB6NFtZywHJ7YfmzsqzrDQCeM6tL e5qb7K9gUvpPATVpeoiIeR8= =P9s/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gRn0bRFZESxbjbJKXw1O--