Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:10:17 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r185982 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <20081227011017.GW18389@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <1230336804.25666.11.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <200812121158.mBCBwRPT096820@svn.freebsd.org> <20081226234619.GT18389@elvis.mu.org> <1230336804.25666.11.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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* Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> [081226 16:13] wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 15:46 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Does this mean that the user has to find the "Linux" package in the > > "add packages" area now? If so, that seems a bit complicated to > > get started. There's a LOT of packages. Pardon if I'm missing something > > obvious here. > > Yes, sort of. > > I've asked portmgr@ to help with setting things up so we've got a couple > of new meta packages that help users set up a usable workstation > relatively painlessly. They've said we can work together with the Gnome > and KDE folks to try and get that set up. I'm not sure at this point if > Linux emulation will be part of that or not, we haven't gotten quite > that far yet. And we'll do something to make those meta-packages > relatively easy to find. For example without something along those > lines a user may just select the "gnome2" metapackage thinking they'll > get a usable workstation but at least as of the last time I did > something like that you don't quite wind up with a usable workstation > (xorg-server is missing for example :-/). > > That said this has sort of been threatened for quite a while now, and > having sysinstall not care about any packages before it hits what is > currently its "Do you want to browse all the packages" section is needed > if we're talking about not including pre-built packages with the release > itself and that sort of thing. We're just setting it up so all packages > get treated as packages instead of some being intertwined in earlier > phases of sysinstall. OK, that makes sense. Please track it though, it would be bad to wind up "hiding" Linux compat from users under a huge package selection. thanks, -- - Alfred Perlstein
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