From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25227 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Jun 2003 14:18:32 -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 30398 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2003 14:18:31 -0000 From: Svyatogor Reply-To: svyatogor@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:22:41 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> <20030622220740.69093532.citizen428@cargal.org> In-Reply-To: <20030622220740.69093532.citizen428@cargal.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306221722.41392.svyatogor@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend) X-Archives-Salt: b10abfdb-02fd-4e23-9755-4c1cc5fe8f7a X-Archives-Hash: 309ae123285ec00fa336e3c3a4aaf0d1 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 Let the Force be with us! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list