Distrowatch on Fedora this year

Laith Juwaidah ljuwaida at fedoraproject.org
Mon Dec 17 19:44:03 UTC 2007


On Monday 17 December 2007 23:26:27 Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Laith Juwaidah wrote:
> > All distros have the System > Preferences menu, yet, they have a central
> > configuration menu, if that is what users want, why don't we give it to
> > them? We can make it a package by itself so that those who don't want it
> > can remove it!
>
> Patches welcome.
>
> Look, it's a matter of who is willing to do the work.  I hear the
> occasional person say "gee, we should have something more like YaST."  But
> then when someone says "well, why don't you port YaST to Fedora?" the
> conversation suddenly stops.
Of course, it shouldn't be a port of YaST, it should be our configuration 
tool, not some other distro's.

>
> Why don't other Fedora engineers do the work?  Because other Fedora
> engineers are working on things that they are passionate about.  And a
> YaST clone isn't really on that list.
In my openion, porting stuff is dull!

>
> So go make it happen.  And if you're not actually an engineer, that's
> fine; go find someone who is an engineer, agrees with you, and volunteer
> to be the guy who does testing and documentation, and then go blog all
> about how awesome FaST is.  :)
I don't mind doing that... I just want to make sure that if I do create one it 
will be used and I won't find people saying "But we don't need a central 
configuration tool!".

PS: They do need a port called FaST; YaST is really slow!
>
> --g
>
> (Warning: it's an unholy bitch to keep a tool like YaST working properly
> as things change -- inevitable as you increase the layers of code
> indirection.  And when YaST breaks something, YaST breaks it all to
> pieces.  That's the bit that YaST fans never talk about.)
>
> --
> Greg DeKoenigsberg
> Community Development Manager
> Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
> "To whomsoever much hath been given...
> ...from him much shall be asked"



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Laith Juwaidah
http://www.ljuwaidah.org/
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