From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14577 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Jun 2003 18:00:12 -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 7333 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2003 18:00:12 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brett I. Holcomb" Reply-To: brettholcomb@charter.net Organization: Holcomb & Associates To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:05:24 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> <200306221722.41392.svyatogor@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend) X-Archives-Salt: 33ef8419-c4af-44a0-aa27-c4ac7ad611f5 X-Archives-Hash: d302f928e340b9df583985bbd8c1acd9 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. > > 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. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list