possible yast porting? was: slashdot on fedora-marketing-list

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 01:44:45 UTC 2006


On 9/6/06, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:40 +0200, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> > Oh no!
> >
> > YaST is one of the primary things that i dislike about SuSE. screws up
> > manually configured things. Needs to run SuSEconfig all the time to sync
> > config database etc etc... Lets just make more(/better?) system-config*
> > tools and perhaps a folder with shortcuts to all these.
>
> Better, definitely.
>
> I for myself freely admit that the system-config tools I work on(*) have
> room for improvement in many areas. Come forward with your RFEs, come
> forward with ideas for UI fixes or patches to bring text mode up to
> speed, come forward with _anything_, but don't complain afterwards if
> you stayed silent. This is not a carte blanche that I'll do everything
> suggested, but at least you may later complain if I didn't ;-).
>
> (*): -date, -nfs, -samba, -services, -users, hwbrowser (the latter
> should be redone completely on top of HAL)
>
> Nils

Since you asked, I can think of one for -samba.

Also, I would like your permission to emal you directly about non
fedora-devel-list worthy things as I continue work on
system-config-backup.

Thank you.
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