On Sunday 08 January 2006 06:36, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Here we go again, who says that you have to limit it to a menu? Give > a menu, but allow a graphical shell during install for those that want > to do extra packages, or whatever. Or, even provide a dynamically > extendable menu that can grab packages lists from other places, from > another CD, floppy, Internet, etc. So, to not provide a menu would be > *limiting* as well. But I do agree with you Holly, that providing > *only* a *predefined* graphical menu for package installation would be > limiting. > Menu of what? How will a Gentoo developer know what you want to install? If you are starting from Stage 3, you just need to choose what to install and thats it. How will a menu help you in that? As far as graphics based Gentoo install is concerned. I don't think that it is even anywhere near Gentoo Dev's priorities right now.
> > Wouldn't it be beneficial to provide automated graphical installs for > gentoo, but provide the option to open a graphical shell at *all* > stages of the installation process? Wouldn't that be ultimate > flexibility? I read about the new graphical install for gentoo, and > perhaps it already does this!?!? > Yes having a graphical install process would be great. Why don't you volunteer and try to write one for us? :) Regards, Abhay
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