Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend)

["Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 20:05, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>  Why?  For Historical reasons <G> the unix way is individual tools that do
>  the job well, not a monolithic swiss knife type of tool (ala Windows way).
>  Seriously, I'd hate to have to use a tool that combines mirrorselect, ufed,
>  etc-update, rc-update, and everything else.  If it's GUI I'd be lost in a
>  maze of menus and tabs.  And it would have to be able to be run from the
>  command line since not all systems have X - then you'd have a billion
>  options to remember which would be impossible.
> 
> The Unix/Linux tool for the job works well - very well.  I've had my fill
> on managing systems (Windows) with the "one giant tool for all jobs"
> approach.  Obvioiusly, we don't have to use this tool but n short I feel we 
> the effort is better spent elsewhere.  I started out using this kind of tool 
> (Webmin, etc.) on Caldera and RH and then gave up as I found they really 
> didn't do the job.  In addition by digging into the command line I really 
> learned Gentoo/Linux.


hmmm you didn't understand the projet. It aims at create a FRONT END to these tools, 
not replace existing ones. Moreover, the tool is dialog based, so you won't need X.


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