Re: [Sheflug] Re: Gentoo Linux

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 19:05, Chris J wrote:
> I've never come across a GUI admin tool that isn't, in principle, a wrapper 
> round the shell utilities. Feel free to enlighten me however :) I can't 
> comment exactly on Gentoo as I've never used it.

gconf-editor would be a good example. I would say webmin counts in a lot
of places too; although some of it clearly is a wrapper. Most of gnome
system admin isn't a wrapper. Anything which admins databases (LDAP, or
RDBMS for example) is highly unlikely to be a wrapper. 

The point I was making was that shell utilities are not defacto 'lower
level' than GUI tools. To think like that is DOS-think; or perhaps the
alternative lunacy of thinking of shell utilities as easy-to-use
blankets around the syscalls, which are what real men use anyway.

> Chris... Slackware devotee (a shrinking breed)

Slackware? What's that?


Cheers,

Alex.

Getting plenty of bites this evening :>

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