Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:53:33 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, 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: <20000627095332.A316@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <2884.962037460@localhost>; from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:37:40AM -0700 References: <20000625195203.C470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <2884.962037460@localhost>
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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
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