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  • From: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
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  • Subject: Fw: [SM-Discuss] ISO: Graphical installers
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:06:06 +0100

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:39:40 +0000
From: Anton Kovalyov <simanyay AT gmail.com>
To: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO: Graphical installers (was: ISO generation
[back on-topic])


I'm totally agree with BearPerson... Source Mage has text-based
installer and it's feature not bug :)


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:38:06 +0100, Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:21:48 -0600 (CST)
> "David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Thinking about nice installer scripts, that framebuffer gtk deal. I need
> > to make the current installer script functions able to be called from that
> > so that it's easy. I'm not even sure that would be a good idea. It might
> > be easier then to write a graphical installer in perl with perl installer
> > functions.
> Hey, why is everyone starting to talk about graphical installers?
> Sure, they're nice, but consider,
> how many people use vcast or xsorcery? (I know 90% of the people who read
> this don't even know what I'm talking about)
> All of sorcery is console-based, I think it would be a little
> lying-on-the-package if the installer was graphical.
> If they get a text-based installer on the ISO, they know what to expect
> on the installed system.
> Just my 2 cents about graphical installers
> So Far,
> Karsten
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