Re: frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:50:39 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> so i was tooling along the road thinking about what it would take for
> people to sit down and use Gentoo/embedded for the target ...
> currently we have misc ways of doing this by hand (install
> mask/etc...), but it tends to be error prone and it requires the end
> user to know more than they should about the portage environment
> 
> what would help here is a frontend ... something like uClinux or Open
> Embedded where a menu system allows the user to select the packages
> to install into the target image and when they're done, they simply
> type 'make' ... wait a bit and they're left with images that they can
> take and flash onto the target board

The way I see this, is that this is covered by buildroot, so it would be
duplicating things at some level to do this with gentoo.

> so really, a friendly frontend for the user to select the
> characteristics of the system, and then a backend to take that config
> and use emerge to build everything and generate an image ... would
> make it easy to create stock board descriptions too ...

But I think it would be really nice if we could teach catalyst to
generate embedded images from some "board" spec files.
And once this works, a fancy spec file editor with a nice gui could be
written if needed.

> what do you guys think ?  stupid idea ?  good idea waiting for a
> champion ? -mike

Yuri.