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

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Ken Smith <kensmith at 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