From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 00:40:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA20545 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 00:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-43.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA20540 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 00:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA28920; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 00:41:22 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 00:41:22 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) In-Reply-To: <22057.880960949@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > give me something to play around with. Anyways, if sysinstall is going to > > be completely rewritten, and there's been little progress (I hope you > > get my drift) ;-) > > Erm.. No, actually? I was thinking if you're going to design it from scratch, why not detach the UI from the rest of it from the beginning, making it easier for some X die-hard (read: me, or someone else with too much free time) to make an X-ish (or even {Web|interface-of-the-month-ish) interface for it. - alex