On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 07:23:54PM -0700, R Garth Wood wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Steve Gore wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:50:38AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > > > > > Debian have a lot of Admins Tools like adduser, magicfilterconfig, > > > linuxlogoconfig, pppconfig, gpmconfig, XF86Setup, and more > > > > > > Can we collect all this tools? I propose to use the menu system for > > > this. With the need="debianconfig" option, we can collect this and write > > > a [X11|gtk|kde|ncurses|.*]tool to find and use this tools. > > > > > > Comments? > > > > I'm not a developer, but as a user I think this is a very good idea. New users > > especially have a difficult time finding the correct way to configure Debian. > > Why not instead have in the post install script update-debianconfig > which would add your config file to a db and then run > update-debianconfig-menu? on no. 1.) I wouldn't collect config files 2.) it is to difficult 3.) I would collect config programs and have a menu of it 4.) we have a very nice menu system, we don't need a new one I make today a example and post it. Grisu -- Michael Bramer -- a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Der Optimist glaubt wir leben in der besten aller moeglichen Welten. Der Pessimist befuerchtet, dass das stimmt.
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