----- Original Message ----- From: "Mickey Mullin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates
> SN wrote: > > As soon as gentoo starts to create scripts for any crap I switch again to > > another distro, the advantage of not having tools for anything is, that > > those tools can't break. > > Look at Suse RedHat Mandrake, 30% of their bugs come from the tools they > > wrote. > > Having tools available doesn't mean that you are required to use them. > I don't use RedHat any more, but when I *was*, I would edit > configuration files by hand rather than use the tools provided with the > distro. One, I don't like installing a GUI on a server (it seems that > the graphical configuration tools are better known in later RH > versions). Two, if I have to first find and then read about a tool that > simply writes text to a file, I'd rather edit the file by hand. I find > that easier. (Finding distro-specific config tools is much more > difficult on a CLI, since you can't just browse to "System Tools" in the > application menu.) > > However, there are probably hundreds or thousands of people using those > tools in place of file editing. Seriously, do you still append users to > the end of /etc/passwd with vi, or do you use "useradd"? (I do both, > depending on circumstances.) Well there are already lots of distros out there, that can satisfy the need for guid tools and people that are looking for a windows like config use mandrake or suse. Just ask Gentoo users why they switched, it is definitely not because they wanted everything done with tools. > > mickey > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
