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Bug#267477: such basic things need to be USERFRIENDLY



On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:14:04AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Come on people, is that really THAT COMPLICATED to add a simple guide to
> new admins to enable such base functionality like SSL? Is this Debian or
> LFS or why T.F. is a such basic thing so complicated? Even Gentoo guys
> managed to solve it in a sane manner, you get correct docs and most
> things are already preconfigured. For Debian, there is NOTHING in
> README.Debian (or is hidden in some obscure other file that is not easy
> to find). Fsck that.
> Even howtos like http://www.ianmiller.net/article.php?id=13 do not work
> out of the box [1].
> 
> Look at Exim4 maintainers. Understandable guides to enable things like
> TLS. Simple. Userfriendly. Tested for fresh installations, no falls and
> traps. The stuff for SSL setup in Apache2 packages makes me really
> pissed.

Eduard,
While I admire your commitment, the abuse leaves a little to be desired,
and is possibly the worst way to motivate anyone to do anything.

I hope your next comment on this bug is a patch.

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