Re: FAQ-o-matic
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 02:28:53AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Hi Marcus,
> On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 02:15:29AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > I am interested, too. But I have never seen the faq-o-matic. Probably I have
> > to look deeper. I would be interested to find a way to have a support database
> > which does not require the user to be online and can be requested by mail.
>
> The FAQ-o-Matic is sort of a support database. It is organised like a FAQ.
> However, you have to be online to query it and submit your entries. Maybe
> someone could hack a perl script to respond to mail queries (should be easy
> to do). OTOH, it could be packaged as a whole.
I knew that. I read a few mails about it but I never tried it out.
> > I would like to type "howto install nis" and get a list of descriptions how
> > somebody has done it.
> >
> > Problem is: Who will do the work to send in descriptions? I would like to have
> > a second command (both in one package) called ididit, so after getting
> > something to work I can type
> >
> > ididit (list-of-interesting-packages)
> > I installed KDE, but it did not work right - there was garbage instead of
> > icons... I discovered the icons to be in kdesupportg0-dev ...
>
> This is something for the Bug Tracking System. The FAQ-o-Matic is more for
> user questions like configuration etc. See www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom.
Yes, I know, it was a bad example. But that late nothing else came to my mind
:)
cu
Torsten
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