| soren | cjwatson: How much work would you estimate it would take to have the graphical d-i frontend that Debian is using for Lenny working with Ubuntu? | 13:54 |
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| cjwatson | soren: not much, I was expecting to turn it on as part of the merge | 13:55 |
| soren | cjwatson: Oh, fantastic. | 13:55 |
| cjwatson | it'll take up a bit more space of course | 13:56 |
| soren | cjwatson: What's the current exchange rate for "a bit" into megabytes? | 13:57 |
| soren | Just an order of magnitude guess. | 13:57 |
| cjwatson | a few :-) | 13:58 |
| cjwatson | actually it might balance out because I just realised there's a bunch of stuff duplicated between the installer seed and the installer initrd, and thus effectively appearing twice on images | 13:58 |
| cjwatson | so if I sort that out we'll save a few megabytes again | 13:58 |
| soren | Excellent. | 13:59 |
| cjwatson | anyway that much is not a problem, I'm just curious about these conversations that have apparently been happening which seem to be wanting to go further? | 13:59 |
| soren | I don't think anything concrete came up. | 13:59 |
| cjwatson | ok, nijaba was pretty vague | 14:00 |
| soren | Yes... If anything concrete did come up, I've forgotten. | 14:00 |
| cjwatson | the mutterings suggested that he wanted something prettier than more or less a straight conversion of the debconf questions to gtk | 14:00 |
| cjwatson | my preemptive advice is that this is actually quite hard :-) | 14:01 |
| soren | I *may* have said something like "if we find something that we *really* can't do with debconf atm..." and then finished the sentence in some hand-wavy sort of way. | 14:01 |
| cjwatson | we might be able to do it for a very, very small number of questions (e.g. 1) | 14:01 |
| * soren nods | 14:01 | |
| cjwatson | basically the architecture involves writing custom frontend-specific plugins in C for specific questions that need better representations | 14:01 |
| cjwatson | and then detecting those in the frontend-independent code and calling them as necessary | 14:02 |
| soren | I understand. | 14:03 |
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