From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3724 invoked by uid 1002); 12 Apr 2003 02:24:58 -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 14543 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2003 02:24:58 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:19:25 -0500 From: Brian Harring In-reply-to: To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: bdharring@wisc.edu Message-id: <200304112119.25840.bdharring@wisc.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer X-Archives-Salt: 8c589b9d-4850-4933-9d25-9199dbcc40e1 X-Archives-Hash: 8405a53cb73bc366b72ce23a4894d2c3 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list