[Frugalware-devel] GUI Installer

[Cory Burgett]

IMHO GUI installers are unnecessary.  However, I think the current 
installer is very buggy.  Moreover, I think some scripting language 
would be more suited for implementing an installer, given that the 
installation is largely a batch job anyway.  Shell (mostly bash) 
installers have worked -- and continue to work -- very well for many 
distros for a long time (Slackware and Arch, for example, among others).
The C installer is much larger and more complicated than an installer 
needs to be, and while it appears to be well designed, it is 
unnecessarily complex and therefore bug-prone and difficult to maintain.

Just my two cents (increasingly valuable thanks to gasoline prices).

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Cory Burgett
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