Re: collect debian-admintools
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Steve Gore wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:50:38AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Grisu
> > --
> > Michael Bramer -- a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
> > PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux
> > "The Box said 'Windows NT or better', so I installed Debian Linux"
>
> 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?
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