Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer

[Brian Harring <bdharring@wisc.edu>]

On Friday 11 April 2003 06:04 pm, 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.

One thing to consider, obviously you're going to probably have some type of 
cli based portage viewer/installer as part of it-  It would be worthwhile to 
break the cli portage manager off into a seperate package.
I'm curious how high/low level you're intending for the installer.  On par w/ 
redhat's server/workstation/custom, or on par w/ debian's?
~harring

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