From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 14 03:37:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA27661 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 03:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from deepo.prosa.dk ([193.89.187.27]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA27656 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 03:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.4/prosa-1.1) id MAA14529; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:36:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:36:55 +0100 From: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov (Jason Thorpe), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: undocumented kernel options... References: <199702140807.AAA14402@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386 In-Reply-To: <199702140807.AAA14402@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>; from Jason Thorpe on Feb 14, 1997 00:07:58 -0800 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason Thorpe (thorpej) ecrit/writes: > > - bloat-ware (if you ship a GUI tool, you are basically required > to ship X, etc... I'm not about to force X on my users... :-) > - maintenance nightmare Could be a port. It *would* be nice to see it there with 'Apache' configuration and 'Samba'. XFree does have an X configuration tool now :-) > In our world, config(8) is simply too flexible, and having to update > the GUI to deal each time would .. suck. True. > This is why I tend to resist "GUI as standard equipment". "Ok, so we have > to ship this library now..." Really, if it's going to ship with the OS, > make it a curses thing... (Then, you can even run it on a serial console, > which is important for server systems and, well, my hp 340 :-) Good point. Using libdialog should be possible -- Michael, to what point is your parser dependant on Tk ? -- -- Phil -[ Philippe Regnauld / Systems Administrator / regnauld@prosa.dk ]- -[ Location.: +55.4N +11.3E PGP Key: finger regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk ]-