From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 28 8:46:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FAD37BA9C; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00459; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:26:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01657; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:50:40 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:50:40 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, dgl@bsdi.com, jim@cdrom.com, papowell@astart.com, wpaul@freebsd.org, ceren@magnesium.net, ryan@ryan.net, murray@bsdi.com Subject: Re: Documentation selection in sysinstall Message-ID: <20000627145040.J1582@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000625195203.C470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <2884.962037460@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message