From owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 06:24:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CAC16A4CF for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 06:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com (web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.94.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4EBB43D3F for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 06:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from urgaolong@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040526132333.38694.qmail@web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Received: from [61.187.54.13] by web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 26 May 2004 14:23:33 BST Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:23:33 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gao=20Long?= To: David Johnson , freebsd-libh@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200405251959.14689.david@usermode.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: LibH or Anaconda ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated to libh code development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:24:15 -0000 David Johnson wrote: Since Anaconda is Open Source, that means we can change it to fit our needs. Not just the partitioning portion of it, but also the package management portion. In other words, we don't have to use RPM just because Anaconda does. OK, we have come the point , the package format! In fact , in my opinion , a good installer , not only anaconda , of any operating systems must do serveral things as : 1. set up a gook-looking and user-friendly GUI , including the X system and a windows system like GTK or QT. 2. partition the disks which to hold the operating system. 3. using a certain package format , to install the whole operating systems 4. some configuration of the operating systems. well , I find everything we use in our practice will work well for a FreeBSD install except that the RPM format may not be suitable for a FreeBSD community . It could be considered not so gracefully(though it does work and is powerful and complicated). But if someone piled the BSD into a set of RPM packages , then we can just install a FreeBSD , even use a grub bootloader , and making RPMs of a base system is not a hard work.But I also welcome a new format , as the libpgk or any kind of the format libH had wanted to use. Any thing new could be helpful , to be blank , I hated the ugly faces of Anaconda and had already want to paint some new ones:) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now