Re: [gentoo-embedded] frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 19:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> so i was tooling along the road thinking about what it would take for people 
> to sit down and use Gentoo/embedded for the target ... currently we have misc 
> ways of doing this by hand (install mask/etc...), but it tends to be error 
> prone and it requires the end user to know more than they should about the 
> portage environment
> 
> what would help here is a frontend ... something like uClinux or Open Embedded 
> where a menu system allows the user to select the packages to install into 
> the target image and when they're done, they simply type 'make' ... wait a 
> bit and they're left with images that they can take and flash onto the target 
> board
> 
> so really, a friendly frontend for the user to select the characteristics of 
> the system, and then a backend to take that config and use emerge to build 
> everything and generate an image ... would make it easy to create stock board 
> descriptions too ...
> 
> what do you guys think ?  stupid idea ? 

Not silly.. I'd tie it into (lx)dialog/Xdialog and skip anything to do 
with catalyst as it tends to be cumbersome for embedded use (plus GNAP 
already exists). using the classic dialog method will provide the most 
familiarity to what buildroot users already expect. 
Then again I'm rather also fond of using single meta ebuilds to handle 
everything but that requires calling emerge from within an ebuild.

> good idea waiting for a champion ?

pretty much..



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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
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