Feature Request

Kevin Freeman kfreem02 at comcast.net
Thu Jul 24 23:15:48 UTC 2003


Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> But you have to be realistic about configuration tools.  If you are
> looking for a vast increase in the number of options, and thus the
> complexity, of basic things like filesystems, there will be an
> exponential increase in the codebase necessary for configuration
> tools.   There are only limited resources available.   As linuxconf
> demonstrated, you have to be REALLY good at writing configuration tools,
> or you end up with a big mess.

Have you looked at anaconda code?  It _already_ contains code to handle 
the requested filesystems, unless it was recently ripped out.  The GUI 
just hides that fact from the end user.

Kevin





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