#3 give reference to "point of change"
>> show where in the /etc system the dispayed
>> settings will actually be manipulated. Otherwise it might be too much
>> of a "blackbox" experience. This way "Beginner mode" users won't be
>> locked in and can learn from references. And by showing reference it
>> can be a great tool even for the experienced sysadmin to explore some
>> areas of configuration files he is not yet so intimate with.
> We've thought about doing that, and it'd be pretty trivial to implement. It would
>certainly give some insight into what the tool is doing. It might also be useful for
>scripts to be told by the command line interface "Ok, I set the config how you asked it, I
>changed file A & file B", so that the script could perform some operation on those files
>(can't think of anything specific off hand).
At least to determine the specific location of a config file on the system and abstracting from the mess of different distributions. ;-)
-Peter
