Good points.
There are, however, some very strong advantages to Linuxconf:
1) Newbie related: Most newbies are going with RedHat. Linuxconf is THE
standard configuration tool in RedHat.
2) Linuxconf works in 3 modes, 1: GUI 2: Shell/text 3: Remote-Browser.
However, none of them is dependant upon the other modes being available.
I use Linuxconf for standard config through GUI, but have never yet used
the Browser config. Heck, I don't even have an HTTP server installed!
It's just "optionally" available.
3) Linuxconf remains seperate from the actual config files and simply
reads them when it initialzes, thus you can still manually "hack" the
.conf files if you want to.
The goal of having diald "work or almost work" strait from installation
is not that hard to do. 0.16 came with some preconfigured "generic/demo"
conf files that required very little change to make work. Stay with that
idea.
Peace favor your sword
-----Original Message-----
From: Dmitry Pogosyan
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 6:54 AM
To: LKLawson; 'LINUX-DI@SMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
Subject: GUI for diald
I have to agree with Manual who wrote:
>Why the hell would I install apache just to configure diald?
>.... I'd rather stick to a linuxconf plugin.
I don't like unrelated things being bundled together.
Unrelated things should not depend on each other, in my opinion.
Neither I think is reasonable for many to run an extra server (as apache)
just to change diald configuration once a year.
As well, I want to add support to an idea expressed few days ago by
somebody:
Should we more think about automating configuration, rather than just
about GUI part ? Question is, who is the projected customer of
the application ? If, as I think, this is a fairly novice Linux user
(in a sense, not an exprienced network manager) with a couple of
computers
at home - then most important for him is that any new program he
installs works (or almost works) 'out of the box'.
I myslef would be happy if there was a (debugged) library of
standard configurations (and filters) I could just copy (or choose in
GUI menu) in the first instance. And hopefully forget about
diald configuration forever.
Dmitri Pogosyan
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