From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Do we really need our own installer?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:17:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fubg2l1n.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a7b0563-806c-fb95-f110-16ab42e2bff7@crazy-compilers.com>
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:
> But do we really need our own installer? Why can't we "just" adopt an
> existing one to our needs? Does the installer need to be part of the
> "guix system" command?
The reason why we have a draft curses installer is because John actually
wrote it. We may be able to adopt an existing graphical installer, but
to my knowledge nobody has investigated this closely enough yet.
The curses installer currently is the closest we have to an installer.
If you feel motivated to take on the work to explore existing GUI
installers, do not let us stop you :)
Originally, we wanted to have an installer that does not hide the Scheme
configuration and lets users play with it. We wanted to have something
that is a step up from manually following the steps outlined in the
manual.
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Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-21 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-19 16:05 Do we really need our own installer? Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-21 14:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-09-22 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-25 9:56 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-25 14:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-04 10:08 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-04 15:09 ` GuixSD on PXE (was: Do we really need our own installer?) Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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