Re: collect debian-admintools
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > > > 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
I don't understand.
> 2.) it is to difficult
Why is it too difficult?
> 3.) I would collect config programs and have a menu of it
That's what I'm proposing.
> 4.) we have a very nice menu system, we don't need a new one
Nono. This would not conflict with the menu system; it would just
add an intermediate step.
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