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 1GC3Fz-0002Np-WD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:51:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7CNoBlq007812; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:50:11 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7CNoA9x025995 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:50:11 GMT Received: from home.wh0rd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7453F64832 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29915 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2006 19:47:06 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 12 Aug 2006 19:47:06 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-embedded] frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:50:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1297961.kc3RT3Evzs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 83f82101-ac15-42a3-b38c-e173f3b67c69 X-Archives-Hash: 0bdab9f8d283e56bb8150efda1cbed39 --nextPart1297961.kc3RT3Evzs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline so i was tooling along the road thinking about what it would take for peopl= e=20 to sit down and use Gentoo/embedded for the target ... currently we have mi= sc=20 ways of doing this by hand (install mask/etc...), but it tends to be error= =20 prone and it requires the end user to know more than they should about the= =20 portage environment what would help here is a frontend ... something like uClinux or Open Embed= ded=20 where a menu system allows the user to select the packages to install into= =20 the target image and when they're done, they simply type 'make' ... wait a= =20 bit and they're left with images that they can take and flash onto the targ= et=20 board so really, a friendly frontend for the user to select the characteristics o= f=20 the system, and then a backend to take that config and use emerge to build= =20 everything and generate an image ... would make it easy to create stock boa= rd=20 descriptions too ... what do you guys think ? stupid idea ? good idea waiting for a champion ? =2Dmike --nextPart1297961.kc3RT3Evzs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARN5pT0FjO5/oN/WBAQJ01hAAlQQNugn/A0yenXZCNqzEXEHSgr7N3yTR R0oMPFGZu6TNZ0/qXoGY8nOQs6LGYdl0EYFWG652rHT7aTKWnIq4Al2e1r9WPT+v v2Wleo2JOOCSmvNFItt4OQcWg+7jLYn9kTX1cOWZjIE81t3YBd1sRY0bW3q/TBEC PAVzJH9BxlgT+RdZzNqENtaXyFshwVRcdAxOfYl0pBFg9WOHaIvlZk4EV/PBIjjt BdtjVVdhBLmTIJw0G/dgW3pq0T/IuSwFevqEjefsFzq1vOpTH3qksNIT+uQRKg6m YXGn4QD+Kj/PSlSb5kmn+myzqv/yozuPftPKPvEKd4MPMiBeL0qM9N+2mRfNh71q bQ196vRbzOfIvsQcnI4/v9Mm0rGuheRHLcPg+xfiauNHgTtOMG7FwfSqBMp4eXz7 wWHzpuIbuRfULyB8nYxMh2tHB2/XOEFJ668KOUBnrSEREBU1WzocV5OurbXHMBxP RMsyJqIwGf4Rg/xrGaNI98EXF2Wzw164xLbT/SCAbhKRxS42L8KjEe+XQuVCU5Ai hk4dpkwiE+CuIKgfg4ABk/m1+GwHwqtj+SOM2QP2Ggw8FscyF9Kmu//rqAXee+FI LbXLe/sh+xc9fPttt1C+MvsB3mJ8mBhEmqqR7uTfJdaazoZ2u1847b9iQf2d2R7L ZDH0d+s0tts= =a/UG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1297961.kc3RT3Evzs-- -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list