Hello Markus, Peter, Me!?!
>Hello Peter and James!
>
>In message <@x400gw.infonet.com>
>         "Hunter, James M     YORK,IT" <James.Hunter@nestlegb.nestle.com> 
wrote:
>
>> Ciao, Peter wrote:
>>
>> >here are some suggestions for new tags for the set files:
>> >
>> [snip tags]
[snip info on tags]

>> I think that we should have a nice menu based installer where you have sets
>> in groups so you can say select X apps group and then choose which programs
>> you want, deselect any you don't want anymore and the installer then goes 
off
>> and does it's stuff.
>>
>> The installer that comes with some versions of linux does this sort of thing.

>
>That's really missing.
>Who's going to write it? Many people say it's needed, but nobody goes and 
does
>something about it, including me.: -|

Well I was sort of thinking about it and if no one jumped and said they were 
doing
it I was going to have a look. I've written a number of custom dynamic menu 
type
things before and so I don't see any problem do this.

>> PS Remember not everyone will want to install X so there should always be 
the
>> option to install from the shell.
>
>Yes, this is a must.
>Most Linux distributions and FreeBSD use the same toolkit to get something 
like
>windows on the shell, don't know what it's called, might be SUIT which Peter
>mentioned. It might be worth to take a look at FreeBSD's pkg_manage. There 
are
>some things which could be done better and it uses a different scheme for the
>package files (the equivalent to sets), but it could probably be used with 
some
>tweaking.
>But you probably need a sophisticated terminal emulation for that and I doubt
>every NetBSD port can offer that, there are still problems with the RiscBSD
>one.

Once you've got the main code slapping an interface on the front for X users
shouldn't be too hard (again it's the question of what we have got for this
type of thing).

So if no one else jumps at it I'll have a go.

James

Software Engineer / Database Developer / IT Business Support
Nestle Rowntree IT
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