On Tuesday 05 August 2003 19:56, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > On Dienstag, 5. August 2003 20:08, Cal Evans wrote: > [quoting re-ordered] > > > Nathaniel McCallum said: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > (...) > > > >> The best solution seems to me to be what someone already > > >> suggested: > > >> write multiple frontends (gtk, qt, curses, etc) for the same > > >> app.. > > >> then the user can choose whatever they please... > > > > > > I've also been considering the following approach... > > > > > > Make glisrc which reads the config file and installs gentoo. > > > No UI. > > > Then, let other people make the GUIs to generate the config file > > > and run glisrc. Is this a good idea? What are some things I > > > need to consider? > > > > ...and a mighty w00t! goes up from the crowd. This would be wonderful > > because it would allow me to have a firewall install script, a > > webserver, script, etc. When I go to install a machine, I just pull > > the correct script and come back the next morning. > > fully ACK > > That would be great! > > So we would have two options: > > a) Start the install script in _batch_ mode: passing to it the name > of an 'answer file' containing the answers to the questions that > that would be replied to by the user when /not/ in batch but > in dialog mode. > > or > > b) Start the install script in _dialog_ mode: using either the > (n)curses or the gtk or the Qt interface. > > > IMhO this would be absolutely great! :-) >
Scratch everything I said, this sounds perfect. -- Tom Wesley
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