David Zeuthen napsal(a):
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:38 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Okay, let me phrase it differently. Moving our OS forward is great, but
> there's no reason to _encourage_ this forward movement to be in directions
> that fit in less well in existing production environments. The situation
> where it's a great step forward for remote administration if and only if you
> set up a whole new special infrastructure is counterproductive.
The whole proposal was put on the table to make life sweeter for system
administrators like yourself.
If the system administrators have the choice between
1) writing a shell script that echo(1)s settings to files in sysfs,
2) writing a shell script that writes them to gconf (which is more
complicated and not as easy to test as cat()ing sysfs files), running
g-p-m and gconfd,
why would they choose option 2) ? Regardless of the rosy possible
future, you need sysadmin buy-in to the proposed solution _now_. If you
don't get the buy-in in the first, say, two Fedora releases after the
code is introducted, getting it later will be much harder.
Mirek