> For better research, we need to gather informations about any gentoo > installation project, or config tools project. If you have done something > related, please mail us.
For Gentoolkit, I'm (still) working on: 1) Rewrite all utils that deal with /var/db to go through Portage 2) Common colours, man pages standards, options, terminology across all tools 3) Merging of superfluous tools 4) Proper text-mode and X11 UI for etc-update. The next step would be: 1) Make the gentoolkit python module available to third-party tools 2) Integrate etc-update with libconf in some fashion - We want better traceability of config changes, perhaps even graphically. In the long run, I'd like to have a fairly well-documented, common interface (in various languages) to dealing with administration of a Gentoo Desktop installation. That is, I want to be able to * do most of my configuration using robust, graphical tools * remotely configure and administrate my box, either by editing the config files directly or using text-mode config tools or attaching a gui front-end over ssh * have full traceability of changes done to my configuration, both by myself and by the system. The reason I think this fits under "Desktop Research" is * desktop installations have a high package turnaround (frequent updates, frequent installation of new packages, and removal of same) * they are often managed by non-gurus (which is _GOOD_; we want Gentoo to become generally accessible over time), who don't want to use vi for four hours to get their IrDA stuff working. * we don't have a good system for this yet, and it's not obviously clear how to handle it, but we have a collection of sysadm tools, some of which live in Gentoolkit, some of which have made it on their own (epm, ...). For servers, one usually has a low turn-around of packages, it's usually configured and maintained by people who know what they are doing, and these people prefer/are comfortable with editing the config files by hand. Kind regards, Karl T -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
