On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:42:44PM -0500, 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. Ok. I move this to debian-policy. After same thougths I think that need="debianconfig" is to simple. We must distinguish between console and X tools and make new 'admin' sections, like: Hardware gpmconfig magicfilterconfig modconf gpmconfig Kernel- und Bootconfig make bootdisk liloconfig Network networkconfig pppconfig sendmailconfig menu-system update-menue documentation User and Groups adduser addgrp Backups dbackup XFree86 XF86Config XF86Setup and more. for the needs: need="debianconfig" need="debianconfig-X11" for X11-only Tools need="debianconfig-text" for text only Tools need="debianconfig-vc" for VC only Tools (ex. gpmconfig) with description the maintainer make a small description of the tool and with the new tag 'readmy' a documentation link (like: (/usr/doc/lilo/liloconfig.readmy oder /usr/doc/lilo/html/liloconfig.html) Should we make this as a debian policy. This all only proposels Comments? Grisu -- Michael Bramer -- a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux »Unix IS user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !«
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