svn commit: r185982 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall

[Ken Smith]

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.

-- 
                                                Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith at cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |

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