[02:38] <OvenWerks> zequence: getting things to work in ubuntustudio-install with packages on the commandline was much harder. I finally gave up on bash and have moved to perl. perl deal much nicer with strings than bash does.
[02:40] <OvenWerks> ubuntustudio-install now takes packages on the commandline checks to see if they exist in the repos the system knows about, grabs the description at the same time... 
[02:41] <OvenWerks> then creates the selection dialog and installs whatever the user has selected.
[02:42] <OvenWerks> The install progress screen is writen in perl, so no new depends are added as I am not using any special perl modules or extras.
[02:50] <OvenWerks> (30 lines of code, 20 lines of comments)
[03:37] <OvenWerks> zequence: new branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-dev/ubuntustudio/ubuntustudio-installer
[04:33] <OvenWerks> zequence: I have uploaded ubuntustudio-installer to my ppa so I can see how it builds and installs.
[04:35] <OvenWerks> It is missing an icon for the desktop file... I'll work on that unless one of our artists beats me to it :)
[06:33] <zequence> OvenWerks: Nice. I'll try it out tomorrow
[06:33] <zequence> We also need to do something about -controls before feature freeze. My idea right now is to do a quick rewrite of it
[06:33] <zequence> make it a simple indicator app, with launchers to system settings and your installer
[14:23] <OvenWerks> zequence: sure, I was thinking that a generic uninstaller might be nice too.
[14:38] <OvenWerks> (as in a generic kernel uninstaller)
[14:39] <OvenWerks> but we should fix grub to default to low latency anyway.
[15:05] <OvenWerks> Hmm, if a package/meta is already installed, I should probably not list it :)
[15:07] <OvenWerks> It doesn't hurt anything to list already installed stuff... makes easier testing. I will put a switch in my code to turn it off and on.
[22:54] <holstein> OvenWerks: its just like...
[22:54] <OvenWerks> Ya I know.
[22:54] <holstein> "i want to help!, how can i help?!"
[22:54] <holstein> and the first thing on the list is /join this channel ;)
[22:55] <holstein> whatevs...
[22:55] <holstein> you never know
[22:55] <holstein> they might test iso's
[22:55] <holstein> that would be helpful
[22:55] <OvenWerks> smartboyhw started that way too.
[22:55] <holstein> yup
[22:55] <holstein> and he's quite helpful