From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8854 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Apr 2003 13:21:51 -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 30919 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2003 13:21:51 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:26:31 -0500 From: DJ Cozatt To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030415092631.6a8fe185.user99@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <1050275603.16939.37.camel@melvin.lorax.wox.org> References: <3E99CA3C.2020306@omegabyte.com> <1050272798.23398.18.camel@Jester.poody.net> <3E99E5D2.9060804@omegabyte.com> <1050275603.16939.37.camel@melvin.lorax.wox.org> Organization: Sometimes X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer X-Archives-Salt: 2a70f527-83f3-469b-98a6-36ca399f1cc6 X-Archives-Hash: 926b21a9fcdae24c414d679e79cd39ca On 13 Apr 2003 18:13:23 -0500 Alec Berryman wrote: > 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 > > benefit from a cli install/package manager more than it currently has. > Saw several posts to this thread that included suggestions from other distro's. Did not see the slack pkg managemnt as a suggestion. It is based on ncurses and includes sublevels of install types for "expert" "newbie" and another can't remember the label now(full?). The idea is to give users a choice for controlling installation packages that is consistent with their knowledge level on what is installed. Don't know if it's gpl. There is also a Slackbuild script that does source installs. IIRC > > > > 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 > > advanced user to take control at any point. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=275364#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. > Give it a shot. > > -- > > Alec Berryman > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list