On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:37:40AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > In theory, this is a doddle. sysinstall already lets the user choose from
> > packages to install. In practice, I think it's a little more difficult,
> > because:
>
> I'm still wondering why the docs bits can't be, at a minimum,
> "front-ended" by the ports collection in a new doc category?
We could do this -- I'd probably use the ports collection to front-end the
binary packages. Otherwise, the user might as well just go and CVSup the
doc/ collection themselves, and build it that way.
> > I'm thinking of initially presenting a dialog box that looks
> > like this:
>
> I'm certain that once you start writing code for libdialog, my
> suggestions above will start sounding a lot less icky than they
> probably do to you right now. :-)
I have no intention of going anywhere near libdialog -- like I say, I can
either put forward proposals and ideas, and assist with them, or I can try
and do one thing at a time. At the moment, keeping up with the -doc mail
is almost a full time job in itself.
What happened to the plans to move to the TurboVision library?
N
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