Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified tool for Gentoo specific tasks?

[Sven Blumenstein]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:45:19 +0800
Michael Kohl <citizen428@××××××.org> wrote:

> Hi!

Hello!

>
> One of the things which disturbs me about Gentoo Linux (admittedly
> only slightly, but still) is the "clutter" of seperate tools I have
> installed which are Gentoo specific: mirrorselect, ufed, gentoolkit
> (although I only have it because of etcat), some things from the
> forums like (ebb -
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=275364#275364
> and femerge - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45827), epm
> (which I haven't installed, but still). Sure this is notss really a
> big problem, but various posts in forums and mailing lists lead me to
> the conclusion that quite a few users are not aware of one or the
> other of this useful little helpers.

I agree with that. I did read about ufed and mirrorselect here on the
mailing list first. It should at least get mentioned in the install docs
and maybe also included on the LiveCD as it would have much use on
installation.

>
> What I was thinking about is a unified, curses-based frontend for the
> various aforementioned tools. And creative like I feel today I already
> came up with a code name for this proposal, "Emergency". ;-)
>

Heh, I like that name ;)

And the idea behind it sounds good aswell. But instead of adding another
new package, I would add the above mentioned tools to
app-admin/gentoolkit together with the frontend. That way you could use
every programm standalone or use it from the "Emergency" menu.

As for the programming part, in my opinion shell scripts with use of
"dialog" for the GUI are a good option.

regards,
Sven

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