configuration of debian systems [Was: Re: Unidentified subject!]
"Sarel J. Botha" <sjb@dundee.lia.net> writes:
> Hi all
>
> I thought of writing a GUI configuration tool specific for Debian. Quick
> description: Each package has a .dconf file, like squid/apache.dconf. This
> file defines:
> - Different configuration options and what they should look like. In other
> words: widgets, like val = var (basicval); val = true/false (basicbool) etc.
In one way or another all proposal have this.
> - How the config option should look like to the user, again use widgets, like
> a checkbox for true/false and a field for name=val.
Thats a bad thing. Each package would look different. All packages
should have the same look&feel during configuration, although the user
should have the choise of what that may be.
Configuration via a prerecorded database or cloning of existing
configurations across a pool are other needed features.
> I didn't know this list existed, but now that I do I'd like to find out if
> there are any other configuration projects already under way, so we could talk
> a bit, work together and not duplicate effort.
Have a look at the archive of this list. There are 3 such projects
which look promising (one by myself :) and a lot of mails concerning
that problem.
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