DON'T use yum/apt-get/emerge/rpm to install plugins. Not all distributions use that tools, some use other tools, some don't use package managers at all. Distributing plugins should be easy. Having to generate 5 or 10 different package formats, each with 5 or 10 different packages for different distribution versions, ist just too much work. The Webmin way, a renamed and compressed tar file, works quite well. We could discuss if we want old or new style tars, with or without GNU extensions, or some other archive format, like arj, lha, cpio or zip.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

In reply to Re^2: Building a web-based system administration interface in Perl by afoken
in thread Building a web-based system administration interface in Perl by wazoox

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