Antoine Beaupre wrote: > Le Mercredi 24 avril 2002, � 11:12 , Mike Meyer a �crit : > > Your simple shell script has to prompt for floppies. That needs UI > > code. The people who know have decided that the current UI code isn't > > up to snuff. Hence libh. > > Come on.. The current package system and sysinstall are quite good at > prompting for a simple yes/no question. The issue is really not there, I > think.
Actually, the prompting is problematic. All such questions should, by definition, be front-loaded. Otherwise, you have to babysit the installation process, which is never a good thing. But that's beside the point: basically, any HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is, by definition, through a UI. > Libh is developping a UI, fine. But we need to develop a way to package > base efficiently. A good first start would be to have it be composed of packages instead of distfiles, and to have a mandatory/optional flag. Actually, wasn't Eric Melville already dealing with this? > I'm concerned with getting base packaged. It shouldn't be too hard to > package base in either libh or classic pkgtools once the framework is in > place. > > I'm concerned that since libh doesn't currently aim at handling the > current bin.xx brute-force system, it will need base to be packaged in > order to install a running system. That's an incredibly positive thing (IMO). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
