Re: [webmin-l] deb experience

[Kris D. <kd...@vi...>]

Mark Pavlichuk wrote:
>   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?

The better tools rely entirely on what they find in the various config 
files.

The not-quite-as-good tools keep their own internal database of some 
settings, but will generally keep or at least not overwrite changes made 
outside that tool.

The not-compatible-with-anyone-else tools rely entirely on their own 
internal database, and just write out complete new config files for any 
changes, ignoring any changes made outside of that tool.

Webmin is (fortunately) in the first category.  <g>

-kgd