On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:53 AM, John Crisp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> My greatest single "thing" with SME is that it's often so hard to get it
>> to do things that I regard as "normal" in a Linux system, but it's a
>> tradeoff I've been making for over ten years and I haven't made the jump
>
> I am not sure why it is so 'hard'. Perhaps that should be a separate
> topic, or add your requirements to the wishlist.....
That should be pretty obvious. For everthing where SME isn't already
handling the process, besides the basic 'yum install' you would do on
a stock CentOS, you have to (a) understand the configuration
completely, (b) understand the SME templating system well enough to
add the new targets, and (c) add all of the options you want to
control to the web UI. And then the packaging needs to be rebuilt. If
you think of SME as something that obfuscates the internal workings
enough that people should have to pay consultants to make it usable,
maybe you don't think that is a bad thing. If you think it should be
easier for an end user to install and run than the underlying CentOS,
then there is a problem.
--
Les Mikesell
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