Re: [Mentalunix-developers] re-awaken the project?

[Clinton E. <unk...@un...>]

 
> As for re-awakening Mentalinux.  Well, sure, what the
> heck!!  At the moment, I won't be able to do too much
> interms of install and system debugging and stuff, because
> I don't have the hard drive space.  But, that should change
> in the next few months.  
> 
> Now, as for getting stuff like xfree4.2, and kde3.0 ported
> to debian, sure.  And finally doing the development we've
> thought about in the past would be fun.

There wouldn't really be any porting, just rebuilding the packages on a 
Debian woody system and maybe some tweaking of the control files to 
make them have correct dependencies. I also want to include a few 
extras with Mentalinux Debian (e.g. public domain fonts, bleeding edge 
CVS versions of stuff like XINE, etc).
 
> Now, for my idea's...
> The way I see it, is we can do this too ways.  Mentalinux
> like we originally planned, with debian as it's base, and
> making it pretty, or use the Mentalinux idea, and make
> something like a virtual distribution that would be
> distribution independant.  What I mean by that is
> developing the installer and all the apps in a way that
> could be easily built, and installed on any distro.  In
> other words, Mentalinux wouldn't be a debian distro per say
> (I'm not saying we abandon that Idea, im saying we don't
> stop there), but rather a structure that could be built
> over debian, redhat, mdk, gentoo, suse, slackware, or
> whatever. How we would do this, im not entirely sure, but
> hey, its just an idea right!

Maybe writing the mentalinux packager (or maybe a better name of meta-
packager since it would be a meta-packager :) after all would be a good 
idea, but not for a while. I was also thinking about writing some 
Autoconf and Automake macros to automate the building of packages 
(rpms, slp, debs, etc) from any autconf project that uses the macros 
(e.g. ./configure --[debian-package | rpm-package | slackware-package | 
stampede-package]). I might do that over the summer (maybe not because 
I _really_ need a job so I can pay for drivers ed [I could have gotten 
my license 8 months ago :-\ but I have to pay for drivers ed, half of 
the $1700 in repairs on the truck I'll be driving, and some other stuff 
so I can learn responsobility or something]).
 
> In any case, I willing to help out, but between my Gentoo
> tweaks, working at Lycoris, and this, I might not be the
> fastest developer!!!

Doesn't really matter--any help would be great. Your Gentoo tweaking 
could be a good thing; if you have any interesting configuration files 
we could use those for the mentalinux defaults.

> Sounds cool, and I'm gonna help out if it does come
> through, even if it doesn't, I'll start working on it!!!

I'm reading the pgi manual now, and should have a semi-working 
installer in a week or so (I have to make a kernel package that would 
work on machines other than mine so that pgi can use it--this is really 
easy with make-kpkg, but I have to edit the control files to give it a 
different name so it is slightly less easy now :).

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unknown_lamer (not at home)