[gentoo-user] idea for a installer

2003-11-20 Thread Redeeman
i got this idea for a installer. the livecd should contain X, and then a installer(could be made in pygtk or something) the installer should be like split into 2 areas, on the left side the install doc should be, and on right there should be a terminal thing, and some action buttons, and then you

Re: [gentoo-user] idea for a installer

2003-11-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:11 AM 11/20/2003, you wrote: i got this idea for a installer. snip be smart if the system got corrupted or for multiply install just an idea, what do you think? What do we think as in our opinions ?? I've personally got NOTHING against text-mode installers myself. Honestly, what benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] idea for a installer

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Redeeman wrote: i got this idea for a installer. the livecd should contain X, and then a installer(could be made in pygtk or something) the installer should be like split into 2 areas, on the left side the install doc should be, and on right there should be a terminal thing, and some action

Re: [gentoo-user] idea for a installer

2003-11-20 Thread Oliver Lange
Hall Stevenson wrote: Honestly, what benefit does a GUI installer give over a text one ? Well, a gui installer could: display the whole package tree (optional one large list). Those which are installed are marked, so you'll always see whats going on. When clicking on a packet, all

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea

2003-08-14 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 07 August 2003 03:06 pm, Gentoo wrote: eList, Hi everybody.. Every time I use emerge -S to look for something I've got to wait an eternity for results to appear.. so I feed up with this and I was thinking to turn the whole portage system (the pseudo database I

RE: [gentoo-user] Idea

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
eList, Hi everybody.. Every time I use emerge -S to look for something I've got to wait an eternity for results to appear.. so I feed up with this and I was thinking to turn the whole portage system (the pseudo database I mean) into mysql, what do you think about that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea

2003-08-14 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Hi everybody.. Every time I use emerge -S to look for something I've got to wait an eternity for results to appear.. so I feed up with this and I was thinking to turn the whole portage system (the pseudo database I mean) into mysql, what do you think about that? As far I could

[gentoo-user] Idea

2003-08-07 Thread Gentoo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eList, Hi everybody.. Every time I use emerge -S to look for something I've got to wait an eternity for results to appear.. so I feed up with this and I was thinking to turn the whole portage system (the pseudo database I