Bug#242251: ITP: user-friendly -- automatic helper to "manage Debian"

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Sam Hartman [Mon, Apr 05 2004, 07:15:47PM]:
> How do you plan to give more permissions to local users?

Wizard says: new user detected. Wanna give him access to
<X> audio devices
<X> cdrom drives
<X> floppy drives
< > raw harddisk access (DANGEROUS)
...

$user can choose and press "okay".

The tool is not intendent to be full-integrated into Debian, it should
only close the gap between Yast and those pits and falls in Debian that
exist because of limited tools (like further dpkg operations during
postinst) or "over-complicated" tasks that are needed to be done by the
user to complete some choice (where maintainers prefer flexibility
instead of ease-of-use).

For example, I remember an ugly detail on X4.3 upgrade from Woody: you
have to press I about 30 times to install "new conffiles" because X
maintainers moved the keymaps in /etc to another package. This is just
stuped. user-friendly scripts could contain a workaround, copying the
checksums between dpkg's .conffiles files.

All such things.

Regards,
Eduard.
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