Andrew Doran wrote: > Any takers for some of the existing tasks listed? Note that this mailing > list is moderated so do not hesitate to chime in. * > > Packages / branding / combined distribution > > - The ones with no legal concerns as noted on the wiki could be put into a > single meta package initially. The stuff that needs investigation could be > put into another package or merged into the original one incrementally. > > - I can provide the prototype theme stuff this week-end if someone wants it. > It is only a starting point but it would be good to figure out how to > apply it to GNOME etc. > > - One question is how we integrate it with pkgsrc. Does the packages simply > go into the meta-packages directory? Do we keep a private tree? Do we get > a NetBSD *system* specific directory in pkgsrc? Thought required. I bet > someone on packages@ can answer this and/or will be keen to help. > > - I hear youtube works with mplayer and the ns-plugin-wrapper thing works too. > > System installation > > - Need to look into enabling line editing and tab completion by default in > sh/ksh. If someone can figure it out a good way to do this by default, I > will be happy to absorb any flamage and commit the changes. Our ksh already has it by default. Although a good addition would be to supply mksh instead of that old version of pdksh in our sources: https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#contrib Which is an actively maintained version of pdksh with some additions found in bash and many other original new features plus bugfixes and portability enhancements. > - sysinst needs some basic mods, the most important batch would be add a > menu to select normal/expert install, and following from that to make the > install easy by asking as few questions a possible. It should be ok to run > the dynamically linked sysinst straight out the build directory on an > existing, running system and install onto another disk. Or it could easily > run in qemu. It's very easy to build sysinst and release CD images if > needed, if someone asks on the list I will write out the steps. > > - Another part is getting X to autoconfigure. From my perspective this means > doing a bit of research, I don't know well enough what happens with it. Is > X -configure smart enough these days? Can we figure out how to set the > keyboard layout given what we ask in sysinst? Is it worth looking at what > Ubuntu/Fedora do? Anyone want to add the code to sysinst? Should be simple > enough. > > What else needs doing? > > cheers, > Andrew > > * it means the kind of holy war seen elsewhere will not be allowed to kick > off here. -- When in doubt, use brute force. Adam Hoka <ahoka%NetBSD.org@localhost> Adam Hoka <ahoka%MirBSD.de@localhost> Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>
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