Feature Request

Ethan Bonick etbonick at networkinggeeks.com
Thu Jul 24 23:21:24 UTC 2003


> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>
>> But you have to be realistic about configuration tools.  If you are
>> looking for a vast increase in the number of options, and thus the
>> complexity, of basic things like filesystems, there will be an
>> exponential increase in the codebase necessary for configuration
>> tools.   There are only limited resources available.   As linuxconf
>> demonstrated, you have to be REALLY good at writing configuration
>> tools, or you end up with a big mess.
>
> Have you looked at anaconda code?  It _already_ contains code to handle
> the requested filesystems, unless it was recently ripped out.  The GUI
> just hides that fact from the end user.
>

Why bother putting it in if you are going to hide it?

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