[webmin-l] deb experience

[Mark P. <pa...@in...>]

  I know it's not entirely fair, but I tried installing the new webmin 
deb onto a machine already running an earlier version.  The earlier 
version was not installed by deb.  The installation failed with a "port 
already in use" error.  Probably isn't worth doing anything about, but I 
thought I'd mention it anyway.  Once I removed the old webmin and 
reinstalled the deb things seem to work fine.  Thanks for the deb...  I 
first discovered webmin browsing the debs available in Debian (Woody?).

  Also, I'm curious as to what cooperation if any happens between the 
various admin front ends available for OSS (gadmintools, gconf, swat, 
mysql-admin, destar etc..).  Is there any?  I've always thought OSS 
would be a more consistently friendly place if there was a library of 
well debugged config plugins/modules that UI guys could plunder and 
abuse.  It might even be useful for the config fiddling that some 
rpm/debs do.  Does this already exist, or are there good technical or 
political reasons why this doesn't exist?

-Mark