[Setup-tool-hackers] GST future path

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli ling unipi it>]

Hi all, two random thoughts about GST and future directions:

1. What about Mandrake Linux? in the past support for this distro has 
lagged behind. Moreover, all the Mandrake Linux config tools, AFAIK, are 
programmed in Perl, like the GST backends: have you ever considered the 
idea of joining forces with Mandrake hackers? Many tools of the drak- 
family are quite good, a cooperation would be beneficial to both and 
would make the day in which there is a standard config center for Linux 
a little closer.

2. If I got it right, at the present moment the GST have to understand 
which distro they're currently installed on and make some changes in 
order to work properly. I think this is the wrong approach and things 
should go the other way round: GST should work out of the box on LSB 
compliant distros, it should be up to them avoiding weird configuration 
setups. If this isn't yet possible, make the LSB stricter than it is, 
and ask for compliance. Again, the idea is to accelerate the progress 
for homogeneity among the different Linux versions.

Disclaimer: I am a simple user and Mandrake Linux doc writer/translator, 
surely not a hacker (I can barely program my VCR, but usually let my 
wife do that :), who's played with XST in the past, liked the idea 
(backend/frontend, common/customisable config suite for all Linux 
distros) and is eventually waiting for a Mandrake-working beta to help 
with beta testing.

Ciao

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Roberto Rosselli Del Turco      e-mail:	rosselli@cisi.unito.it
Dipartimento di Scienze			rosselli@ling.unipi.it
del Linguaggio			Then spoke the thunder	DA
Universita' di Torino		Datta: what have we given?  (TSE)

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