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

[Svyatogor <svyatogor@gentoo.org>]

On Sunday 22 June 2003 14:07, Michael Kohl wrote:
> What I'd love to see is something to replace the clutter of tools
> currently present (mirrorselect, ufed, the various -confifgs etc.) for
> gentoo specific tasks in on single tool, "Emergency" (my first name
> proposal), "gentoo-config" or whatever name we decide on.
Not Emergency - please! It sounds as if it's always gonna crash and you need 
to call emergensy service. I've got another proposal: Gremlin? It has G - for 
gentoo. In the end of the day we have "Konqui the dragon" for KDE, Demon, for 
BSD. Why not Gremlin for gentoo?

> So maybe a good point to start would be _new_ functionality like a GUI
> for setting various settings in /etc/make.conf (portdir overlay,
> features, rsync retries etc.) and then start working on integrating
> functionality currently provided by the other tools.
Probably we should go other way round? First integrate what is already done 
and then add new things. This way we'll make sure we're not just gonna add 
one more tool, but really integrate existing ones.

> I'm not even sure anymore if I want to see package managment included in
> this unified tool, as from my point of view a full featured package
> manager is a project worth it's on program. But regarding this I'm open
> for argument and other people's opinion.
I feel that package management has to be in such tool, though not nesesarily 
in first versions.

-- 
Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@gentoo.org>
Let the Force be with us!


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