From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 23 21:49:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25199 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25143 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08922; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:48:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: Peter van Heusden , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:48:29 CDT." <19980623194829.05384@futuresouth.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:48:44 -0700 Message-ID: <8919.898663724@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So, the first step is to write scripts/programs to create/edit the > various config files: pppconfig, maybe some nice wrappers around pw, > syslogconf, even a profileconf and cshconf, heck, let's complicate things > more and make a rc.confconf. Just find every config file that people Eeek. I think this might have been a transitional approach of value some 4-5 years ago, but nowadays we have namespace pollution and the fact that front-ending things in this fashion is something which proved its limitations and went out of fashion almost a decade ago. If we're going to do something now, let's stick with 90's techniques at least. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message