From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30341 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Jun 2003 07:02:03 -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 13075 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2003 07:02:03 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:59:49 +0800 From: Michael Kohl To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030623145949.7a9a3617.citizen428@cargal.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> <200306221722.41392.svyatogor@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Gentoo Linux Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=..OXzq,kdrvLN'(" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend) X-Archives-Salt: 931d7800-b65b-42c6-b1dd-0cf9df3595a9 X-Archives-Hash: cae5819cf1a6ab6da774ffefa38930cd --=..OXzq,kdrvLN'( Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:05:24 -0400 "Brett I. Holcomb" wrote: > Why? For Historical reasons the unix way is individual tools > that do the job well, Nothing against the UNIX way, I also like it, but just because something is old and in use for a while doesn't mean it's perfect or the only way of doing things. I'll bet there are people who'd like to have the swiss army knife type of program (e..g. FreeBSD converts used to /stand/sysinstall), that's why the real ones sell pretty good. ;) > Obvioiusly, we don't have to use this tool but in short I feel we the > effort is better spent elsewhere. None of us is a official Gentoo developer and we all like this project. I can't see why this effort should be spent elsewhere. > In addition by digging into the command line I really learned > Gentoo/Linux. And that was the same for me while still using Debian. The point of this tool is not to replace anything currently present completely, nor is it an attempt to "dummify" Gentoo Linux. But for somebody new to the distribution it may not be obvious what all of the currently present tools do. A unified tool capable of configuring many ascpects of a Gentoo system could help here. Michael -- www.cargal.org GnuPG-key-ID: 0x90CA09E3 Jabber-ID: citizen428 [at] cargal [dot] org Registered Linux User #278726 --=..OXzq,kdrvLN'( Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+9qVn3i2RopDKCeMRAjnAAJ9n5ftVIybufKHbNFcVvnllvYelgwCcDdPZ kHnS5qSdHU7h4w/mmFSjeMk= =WpNQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=..OXzq,kdrvLN'(--