From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17196 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Jun 2003 21:48:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24253 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2003 21:48:04 -0000 From: Philippe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lafoucri=E8re?= Reply-To: lafou@wanadoo.fr To: Gentoo-dev In-Reply-To: References: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> <200306221722.41392.svyatogor@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: InFuzzion Message-Id: <1056318482.7826.56.camel@biproc> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 22 Jun 2003 23:48:02 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend) X-Archives-Salt: 0d9c8ecc-0e59-4318-bd14-53173df9c081 X-Archives-Hash: 21c28b5beff4a12eda845fa13178a985 On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 20:05, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Why? For Historical reasons 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list