On Monday 17 December 2007 23:26:27 Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Laith Juwaidah wrote: > > All distros have the System > Preferences menu, yet, they have a central > > configuration menu, if that is what users want, why don't we give it to > > them? We can make it a package by itself so that those who don't want it > > can remove it! > > Patches welcome. > > Look, it's a matter of who is willing to do the work. I hear the > occasional person say "gee, we should have something more like YaST." But > then when someone says "well, why don't you port YaST to Fedora?" the > conversation suddenly stops. Of course, it shouldn't be a port of YaST, it should be our configuration tool, not some other distro's. > > Why don't other Fedora engineers do the work? Because other Fedora > engineers are working on things that they are passionate about. And a > YaST clone isn't really on that list. In my openion, porting stuff is dull! > > So go make it happen. And if you're not actually an engineer, that's > fine; go find someone who is an engineer, agrees with you, and volunteer > to be the guy who does testing and documentation, and then go blog all > about how awesome FaST is. :) I don't mind doing that... I just want to make sure that if I do create one it will be used and I won't find people saying "But we don't need a central configuration tool!". PS: They do need a port called FaST; YaST is really slow! > > --g > > (Warning: it's an unholy bitch to keep a tool like YaST working properly > as things change -- inevitable as you increase the layers of code > indirection. And when YaST breaks something, YaST breaks it all to > pieces. That's the bit that YaST fans never talk about.) > > -- > Greg DeKoenigsberg > Community Development Manager > Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255 > "To whomsoever much hath been given... > ...from him much shall be asked" -- Laith Juwaidah http://www.ljuwaidah.org/
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