As someone who came to Fedora from openSUSE, yeah, Adam, YaST is definitely a bad approach. It was great for things I did *once* when I set up a box, but for the stuff I did regularly - install / uninstall packages, build stuff from source, etc. - the command line tools beat the crap out of GUIs.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:03 PM Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 04:05 +0000, Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote: > > Hello, SUSE distributions have a system control panel that can configure > many aspects of the system. It is the best feature I saw in SUSE, it is > very interesting, useful and beneficial for all users. > > > > * Why Fedora does not have such tool? > > Because we think it's fundamentally a wrong approach. Several years > ago, Fedora decided it really wasn't the right approach for > distributions to build unique layers of configuration tools, and we've > been systematically *removing* the tools we used to provide along those > lines (system-config-*) in favour of: > > i) just getting things right so we don't need a giant pile of > configuration tools > ii) tools written at more appropriate layers, mainly desktop > environments > > > * How much money is need to develop such tool from scratch or port it > from SUSE to Fedora/RHEL? > > It's not really a question of resources, but of not thinking this is > the correct approach. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- How many people can stand on the shoulders of a giant before the giant collapses?
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