On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:14:11PM -0700, David Walser wrote: > Why would GUI admin tools be in a minimal > installation?
Okay you're right it wouldn't actually increase the minimal install because none of the mandrake config tools are required by it. But a lot of systems that don't have even the XServer installed but do have have Xlibs and the mandrake config tools (think servers) would have to have qt installed in order to get the mandrake config tools. If anyone can tell me with a straight face that server people should have to install qt3 to use diskdrake or drakxservices. Or for that matter since some of these drak tools are used by the installer that qt3 should have to be on the installer's ram disk. We hear people complain all the time about how much ram the installer takes and that it takes more RAM to install than to run a minimal system. Making the drak tools qt3 based rather than gtk would only make this worse. The solution to this is simple. Put the functionality of the tools in a perl module (I think this is already done in some cases). Then just install the front ends that use those modules. So you would have perl-MDK-DiskDrake which would include the code that did all the actual work. And then kdiskdrake and gdiskdrake for the qt and gtk front end respectively. Then those front ends could use alternatives to map one of them to diskdrake. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
