Re: Configuration management and packages
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 02:32:03PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
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> You might wonder why I don't use linuxconfig completely? There are
> multiple reasons: from what I see linuxconf is designed to be one big
> interface for all configuration stuff. What I'm aiming toward there
> is simpler: getting configuration information when installing. We don't
> want to start linuxconf completely when we install a single package.
> Secondly, linuxconf is very linux specific (at the moment at least),
> and especially since Debian/HURD is begining a more general solution
> would be A Good Thing(tm).
What about COAS? I would like to have a simple back-end for config management,
with different front-ends that could be used in different environments,
from the boot-floppies text-mode to the GNOME GUI. I think the COAS
proposal is a step in the right direction.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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