On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on >> thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation >> process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? >> Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? >> 1.5) There is a hidden assumption here that image based installations >> would not work for everyone (likely due to a lack of the 'right' >> image; too old, wrong arch, etc...) >> 2) Has anyone looked at just taking an existing installation framework >> (d-i? kickstart?) and just making it run different stuff? I honestly >> have not looked at either (someone else at work does that thank god) >> but it can't be outside of the realm of impossibility... > > i dont particularly care what installer we utilize, it'd just be nice > to have a helpful gui/curses based approach available as an option. i > have toyed with anaconda in the past, but my personal experience has > been that our gui python one was better. that and the insistence on > redhat-only tools (like rpm) is obnoxious. > -mike
RPM dependency has been moved to the yum module inside anaconda and it's not required anymore. > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org
