RE: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn
I think the case can be made that for novice users they don't need to
interact with the dpkg install questions.
When I've done the install on a new system, I always use the default
settings settings for the packages (basically, just hitting enter as I go
along), except for 3 packages.
The following packages require my intervention, but in these cases I can
argue that either the packages don't need to be installed by default, or
they should be made a little more intelligent:
1. gpm - usually need to configure the mouse settings. However, lately I
have been finding I automatically always run X so I *wish* that gpm was not
installed by default !
2. exim (the default mailer). Most novice users are going to use a graphical
mail client such as xfmail, kmail, or the gnome mail client. These *do not*
require an smtp server running on the machine ! I do realize that it is
useful to have the system mail the machine's admin on server failures, but
this could be set as a default configuration for exim.
3. Which X server to use. I believe the reason dpkg requires asking this is
because debian has a unique, and more secure, way of linking the
/usr/X11R6/bin/X to the X server through the /etc/X11/Xserver file. Couldn't
XF86Config be made more intelligent to automatically do this ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Soto [mailto:masoto@uniandes.edu.co]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 8:23 AM
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn
Fabien Ninoles <fab@tzone.org> writes:
> But I'm not sure if we can go this way with dpkg. Installation of Deb
> pacakges is still interactive. Maybe with the new configuration db
> manager... BTW, is people has some regards for COAS (http://www.coas.org).
> It seems to be a project with the same goals as us.
By the way, does anyone know what the current status of COAS is? The
website seems to be stalled since November.
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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