From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GCBaa-0005EJ-SQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:44:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7D8huov006560; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:43:56 GMT Received: from skinny.southernlinux.net (ns2.rednecks.net [64.192.52.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7D8htMD000426 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:43:56 GMT Received: (qmail 14651 invoked by uid 210); 13 Aug 2006 04:43:19 -0400 Received: from 64.192.55.166 by skinny (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.88.4/1650. f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. spamassassin: 3.1.3. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(64.192.55.166):. Processed in 0.100817 secs); 13 Aug 2006 08:43:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.99.99.10?) (64.192.55.166) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2006 04:43:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:43:47 -0400 Message-Id: <1155458628.6438.38.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8f00a017-863a-49e1-acb8-7c05c80beb67 X-Archives-Hash: 38f5c8a6a37c1b7e722e967f0875a6ff 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.. -- Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list