Re: redesigning the debian installer
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:36:03PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Sep 14, 2000 at 04:47:09PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > Each item in the main menu is provided by an installer module. Installer
> > modules indicate that they want to appear on the menu by including the
> > following special flag in their control file:
> >
> > Installer-Menu-Item: nnn
>
> I think this is brillant. This provides a wonderfully simple way of
> breaking things into chunks that can be fully groked by mere
> mortals, and easily verified to be obviously correct. It also
> ensure that fixing one item doesn't break 10 other things by
> accident. Very good idea.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't this require central
coordination of a sort of "magic number registry"?
I think I would prefer something like "Installer-Follows: module
[,module, ...]" (e.g. the menus that must precede this one) and have
the installer figure out which order in which they're supposed to be
presented.
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