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

[Michael Kohl <citizen428@cargal.org>]

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On 22 Jun 2003 15:34:14 +0200
Philippe Lafoucrière <lafou@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Now we have to define fonctionnalities of this new utility. I propose
> a basic select/install/deinstall utility for the first release.

Hm, actually I always considered package managment a rather low priority
for a tool like this or even a tool on it's own.

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.

Also the task of installing packages in a GUI is already covered by
several projects (for a console version you can use the scripts from
Optilude found on forums.gentoo.org), but something similar to
/stand/sysinstall is not present and besides our talking not in the
planning AFAIK.

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.

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.

My 2 cents,
Michael

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