Re: [Fwd: [Discuss] Debconf as an administration tool]
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:30:49AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> By the way, have you seen this project (and how do you think it would
> fit in to the picture?):
> http://config4gnu.sourceforge.net/about.html
I hadn't seen this project before, but it strikes me as being very similar to
both debconf and the gnome system tools. It doesn't look like it'll
interface well with debconf though.
You have to keep in mind that debconf isn't designed to be more than a
wizard-style approach to configurations. This limitation might be problematic
for what you're trying to achieve. The advantage to it is that it forces the
developer to attempt to make elegant choices in configuration schemes, rather
than throw every option at the user. In my opinion though, we already have
webmin and we used to have linuxconf, both of which provide the more complex
set of complete choices to the user. Perhaps what we need is something
different, and using debconf as the frontend might facilitate it.
- David Nusinow
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