System Config Tools Cleanup Project - tools to eliminate/replace

[David Lutterkort]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 17:10 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> * system-config-netboot
>   - very outdated
>   - replacements k12linux, cobbler

Heh, yeah, the shortcomings of this were the inspiration for cobbler.

> * system-config-boot
>   - at least it needs facelift and it's not very usable at all

And should probably use Augeas in the backend.

> * system-config-network
>   - replacement NetworkManager
>   - missing IPv6? routing?

If a tool like this is needed at all (though NM should really just
absorb the functionality), the backend should be based on netcf[1]

David

[1] Currently at http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/netcf, but I'll
    move it to fedorahosted any day now, and actually make a release.
    The intent is to have netcf as a distro-agnostic backend for network
    configuration that can be used by at least libvirt and NM