* David N. Welton <davidw@dedasys.com> [2006-03-05 20:41:55]: > The reason Debian can't compete with Ubuntu for the Desktop/new to Linux > users is that Ubuntu makes choices where Debian won't or can't. They > give you a default system that works well because they picked certain > things instead of others, instead of giving you the huge amount of > choice Debian gives you right out of the box. The clever thing is that > that choice is still there if you want it... I dont think that that is a valid reason to stop trying. The solution to this problem could be to allow special configuration (e.g. in a seperate package) for groups of packages for tight integration (e.g ldap + samba, afs + kerberos, hotplug/udev + ...). The problems to solve would be: How to phrase it for policy to allow these configuration packages to (p)reconfigure other packages, how to best reconfigure the packages (preseeding? config rewriting with cfengine? ...), how to upgrade these tighly preconfigured package groups, and certainly some more which I miss right now. To implement this in a robust and clean way would allow for all kinds of neat configureations for quick deployement and would boost debian's usefullness for users enormously. "I want to install a virus and spam filtering greylisting secure mailserver." aptitude install postfix-amavis-postgrey-spamassessin-config
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