Desktop, Debian, RH, and Calvanism (was Re: [svlug] HW system for Linux?)

[David N. Welton]

Mike Castle <dalgoda at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 09:58:23AM -0800, David N. Welton wrote:

> > would be possible to write plugins to configure everything from a
> > central point, without giving up the ability to edit the file with
> > one's favorite editor.

> If you want central configuration control, look at cfengine.

It looks like a nice tool, but what I'm talking about is the ability
to programmatically configure subsystems such as the web or smtp
server, desktop, etc...  Tools like cfengine let you do that, but
writing the plugins is laborious at best.  Also... there would be some
gains in terms of space savings to eliminate all the redundant config
file reading code in favor of one common library.  "Not gonna happen"
though, unfortunately.

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