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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: System Configure tool
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-06 0:12:30
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On Saturday 05 May 2001 13:20, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Basically, if ever any sysadm module for KDE should be written, then it
> should not be written in KDE. It should be written generic, so that it
> can be used by other projects as well. For example just like gPhoto can
> be used with Gnome and KDE's kamera kioslave.
>
> So there is already an interface between some GUI and some worker
> class. This layer would be a good point to have remote administration
> possible.
>
> Third, because of the huge amount of configurable things in a linux box
> I'm wondering how this can should be solved. kuser, kcron etc all
> solved this by hard coding everything in C++. That's a tedious task. I
> mused some time ago if it would be possible to create a "configuration
> file description language", augmented by actions and information gather
> methods. 

Congratulations, you just described YaST2 :-)

Cheers,
Waldo
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