System-config Reworking Proposal

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Nov 19, 2007 7:49 AM, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
> For my tools (-date, -nfs, -samba, -services, -users), just being able
> to edit files is also not sufficient. Often these tools don't edit files
> themselves but use e.g. chkconfig or libuser, partly it isn't even known
> whether local files are changed or some objects in an LDAP directory.

Well I was considering that the doCommand, doCommandWait to take care
of that. Am I underestimating that need?

> In my eyes, we first need to get UI, logic and privileged operations
> cleanly separated. Then we can think about additional stuff like logging
> of operations (would be put between UI and logic) or move stuff from
> using usermode to PolicyKit.

Seems like something that can be in parallel as part of the reworking.

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