What if the book wasn't a book anymore

[David Jensen]

TheOldFellow wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:06:41 -0700
> Gerard Beekmans <gerard at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> 
>> What if LFS wasn't in book form anymore. What if it's an interactive 
>> program instead. A 100% merge of LFS, BLFS, ALFS, <any>LFS.
> <snip>
> 
> I like this.
> 
> The design could be quite difficult as it probably will
> need to run in a number of environments (X11 and not, for instance), and
> could allow for various multimedia presentations during the
> installation - sound, flash, html, as well as text, come to mind. 

The easiest interface would be adding a .alfs handler to Firefox. 
Configuration of defaults done the same way.  I'm not sure about text 
browsers.

> There needs to be a non-interactive switch, a quiet switch, and a
> dummy-run switch too.

  Buttons could be added?

> How to handle upgrades?  The discussions on PM's have been interesting,
> I favour using an existing PM, but other than that, I'm easy.

Also handling overlapping dependencies between modules requires a PM 
that checks what is already installed.

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David Jensen