[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Mon Oct 4 21:40:39 CEST 2010

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+Quote: yvan munoz wrote on Mon, 04 October 2010 21:33
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+> Drak3d : completly unnecessary today for Compiz (and Metisse seems to
+> be
+> on-stop actually, so no reason to maintain especially for it now)
+> DrakDisk : partitionmanager seems to be not ready, not complete
+> actually.
+> gparted and Palimpsest are excellent (especially palimpsest) but
+> DiskDrak
+> stay the g best tool i know today
+> DrakGuard : Absolutly wonderfull, a real "plus-value".
+> Drakups : unnecessary today ?
+> Drakfirewall : OK, but maybe integer outpout controll too is a good
+> idea ?
+> (and provide effortless arptables and ebtables looks ambitious ?)
+> DrakSambaShare : initially a community addon from Mr Ginies (it think?)
+> :
+> really excellent tool too. But maybe unnecessary today (as draknfs)
+> because
+> desktop integration (and servers have admin)
+> Drakbackup and Draksnapshoot : please remove
+> DrakFax :  unnecessary today (desktop integration)
+> Drakmenustyle : deprecated
+> Drackoo : unnecessary today (libreoffice integration)
+> Drakpxelinux : too strict on paths to be really used by someone who
+> knows
+> nothing about pxe and mdk/mdv/mga. Please remove.
+> Drakvirt : superseeded by Redhat tool.
+> Draknet* : please keep it. Best tool today (better than networkmanager
+> for
+> many thinks, and conman seems to be not finished today.) Ambitious to
+> have a
+> knetwaorkmanager port for draknet* ?
+
+Well, luckily it's not your decision...
+
+I use several of those tools you think can be removed.
+
+We should improve and extend the draktools not cut them down!
+
+I would really like a draklirc to configure IR remotes, since that's a
+major pain to do manually (especially the first time), I even was thinking
+of writing it myself, but never found the time for it so far.
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