From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 298 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Apr 2003 23:04:11 -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 17926 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 23:04:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:04:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Jeff Rose To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer X-Archives-Salt: 447b0150-599b-4ba6-a0fb-b674ec743ec9 X-Archives-Hash: d00c6b379f086330c948f45d30bf6195 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. I haven't been around to see what people discuss in terms of the installer so I'm sorry if this is all stuff that you have gone over hundreds of times. Even more minimal than a gui installer, have you thought about adding more scripts to do the standard directory setup, download, chroot... type of stuff? What do you think? -Jeff -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list