Comments on YaST and admin tools

[Joachim Frieben]

It has always been a good UNIX tradition to provide -small- tools for
individual tasks instead of a huge bloated one to cover many (the so-called
"UNIX tools philosophy"). E.g., have a look at:

   http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html

"Fedora/Red Hat" has always been exemplary in complying with this basic
principle as opposed to competing distribution such as "SUSE" etc.
Moreover, the "System -> Administration" menu allows to easily access the
different configuration tools. A unified frontend would add a useless
additional layer between the user and the specific admin tool which he wants
to access.

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> 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.
>