Re: [devel] Network Konfiguration with an KDE-Program

Dominique Devriese <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:32:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.debian,gmane.comp.kde.devel.debian
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Juanjo Alvarez writes:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:52:38PM +0100, Sascha Morr wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i found this nice KDE-Program for network configuration at
>> sourceforge
>>
>> => http://knetworkconf.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Will it be a goot joice for us?

> Yes and no. Yes because it seems to mostly do the job of configuring
> network interfaces. 

Agreed, from the screenshots, it looks rather nice.

> No because it depends on Gnome System Tools-Network, a convoluted
> and huge perl file that tries to do everything for every
> distribution.

How is this a problem for us ?

> I think is preferable to have a smaller network tool but more
> dedicated to Debian (like Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse and others have)
> where we can quickly make any changes we want than a huge program
> that depends on some external tools.

If we really would want this, we could always do it in the debian
patch for the package, no ?

cheers
domi