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From: Michael Kohl <citizen428@cargal.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified tool for Gentoo specific tasks?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:03:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030610230314.71f33827.citizen428@cargal.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030610164236.5de01e80.me@0x1337.net>

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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:42:36 +0200
Sven Blumenstein <me@0x1337.net> wrote:

> I agree with that. I did read about ufed and mirrorselect here on the
> mailing list first. It should at least get mentioned in the install
> docs and maybe also included on the LiveCD as it would have much use
> on installation.

Don't know about the LiveCD's, haven't tried one for quite a while. But
people not knowing about one or the other tool I encounter quite often.

> >And creative like I feel today I
> > already came up with a code name for this proposal, "Emergency". ;-)
> > 
> 
> Heh, I like that name ;)

Thanks.

> And the idea behind it sounds good aswell. But instead of adding
> another new package, I would add the above mentioned tools to
> app-admin/gentoolkit together with the frontend. That way you could
> use every programm standalone or use it from the "Emergency" menu.

Hm, that doesn't sound bad either. But sometimes I have the feeling that
gentoolkit is a collection of tools which don't have a place yet (like
etc-update moving to portage, epm becoming it's own package), but I
might as well be wrong on that.

> As for the programming part, in my opinion shell scripts with use of
> "dialog" for the GUI are a good option.

Afer looking at ufed's code I realised that it also uses dialog. But
it's written in Perl. And actually I think that giving the possibility
to write a plug-in for "Emergency" in a variety of languages makes it
more attractive. But still, nothing against the use of dialog (or
Xdialog[1] for a GTK version of "Emergency").

Michael

[1] http://www.chez.com/godefroy/


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-10 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-10  8:45 [gentoo-dev] Unified tool for Gentoo specific tasks? Michael Kohl
2003-06-10  9:07 ` Michael Kohl
2003-06-10  9:54 ` Michael Kohl
2003-06-10 14:42 ` Sven Blumenstein
2003-06-10 15:03   ` Michael Kohl [this message]
2003-06-10 16:21     ` Robin H.Johnson

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