Fedora.next: I would like working configurations

[Robert M. Albrecht]

Hi,

might be totaly out of scope for Fedora.next, but this is what I would 
like to get better in Fedora.

If I install a Windows-Server with some services like DHCP or file 
services, I get a working configuration.

- If I install a Fedora-server with dhcpd, dhcpd doesn't do anything
- If I install tftpd and syslinux, I don't get a working pxe-config
- If I install postfix, I don't get a working mail-server
- If I install Nagios, it does not monitor & report anything
...

I have no idea, how to change this. Debian uses some interactive stuff 
to create a more or less working configuration while installing a 
package. This resembles the Microsoft installation tools.

But rpm is strictly non-interactive, so this would not work for Fedora.

I think this is a real problem. The missing working default-configs are 
a real hassle for replacing small servers in Windows-shops with Linux as 
the non-expert-Linux-admin has an enormous entry-barrier to get some 
minumum working configuration from which he can start.

To build a Fedora-Server which does the needed ip address management 
stuff for a modern network (dhcpd with dynamic bind-updates for IPv4 and 
IPv6 plus forwarding to the isp) is non-trivial, even for a long time admin.

Perhaps meta-packages (call them roles or stacks if you like) like ipam 
(pulls in dhcpd, bind, ... plus some config-files) or mail-server (pulls 
in postfix, imap, fetchmail, ...) might be the solution.

I have no idea how to do this. Combing several packages and integrating 
them would produce some interessting test-problems. How to avoid 
colliding apache-configs done by different meta-packages, ...

cu romal