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  • From: Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] The lonely PMS
  • Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:20:59 +0100

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> On Wednesday March 26 2003 05:47, Dufflebunk wrote:
> Well, we have 0.5 behind us, and it's time to start looking forward
> again. If we are going to continue saying that the distro is bash based,
> we should start making it bash based. Right now only the package
> management and installer are done in bash, and a package management
> system does not a distro make.
>
> Perhaps we should be making the core parts of the distro in bash, init
> for one. In addition, we need tools for modifying the system, runlevel
> editors, X configuration, and hardware setup come to mind right now and
> I'm sure there are many others.
>
Well, I have a runlevel init.d editor that will be going into the init.d
script today... so scratch that from you list.

> I suppose writing scripts in bash to duplicate functionality we already
> have by using other apps is a little too far (ie wget replacement
> written in bash). But it is something to think about to see how far we
> can push things.
>
I don't really see this as the core idea behind our system... but we will be
approaching the subject of "what next" here real shortly..... stay tuned and
see you at the next smgl-admin meeting! ;-)

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