TheOldFellow wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:06:41 -0700 > Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What if LFS wasn't in book form anymore. What if it's an interactive >> program instead. A 100% merge of LFS, BLFS, ALFS, <any>LFS. > <snip> > > I like this. > > The design could be quite difficult as it probably will > need to run in a number of environments (X11 and not, for instance), and > could allow for various multimedia presentations during the > installation - sound, flash, html, as well as text, come to mind.
The easiest interface would be adding a .alfs handler to Firefox. Configuration of defaults done the same way. I'm not sure about text browsers. > There needs to be a non-interactive switch, a quiet switch, and a > dummy-run switch too. Buttons could be added? > How to handle upgrades? The discussions on PM's have been interesting, > I favour using an existing PM, but other than that, I'm easy. Also handling overlapping dependencies between modules requires a PM that checks what is already installed. --- David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
