Comments on YaST and admin tools

[Steve Barnhart]

Thank you very much for your indepth reasoning Dax kelson. Perhaps
then the development team should work toward unifying all of the
system-config tools under one system (perhaps a common GUI similar to
YaST). I feel that Fedora could atleast use a control panel-like
system to compete with SUSE, even if it may not be the dominant
option. I believe a lot of people are perhaps drawn to SUSE because of
YaST and maybe branch away from it, whether its a good thing or not.

On 9/1/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:37 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> >
> > In my opinion porting YaST would be a lot of effort and for what?
> > Naturally the whole YaST system has lots of SUSE specifics
> > (see /sbin/conf.d) and by the time you pull those out what is left? A
> > skeleton of a management framework that supports curses and QT. Would
> > that effort be better spent on an integrated modular multi-interface
> > system that followed the Fedora development philosophies from the get
> > go?
>
> Yes, I'd be much more interested in an effort to take all our existing
> system-config-foo stuff, modularize it (it's all python right?), get it
> all on a common playing field (--nox vs --tui vs --text vs whatever),
> and then possibly a tool that can call all of them.  But mostly making
> them all consistent would be a WONDERFUL task and much more effective us
> of our time.
>
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Steve