On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:03:34AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > But it's trouble for beginners that don't know how to set variables and > aliases. For these people there is no real help in Debian and it's also > forbidden to modify /etc/profile, no matter if it's explicitly wished by > the user/admin or not. you can't make everything automatic, nor would you want to, in this system the newbies are expected to learn. deal with it. or use one of the Win* clone distros like Corel. > They don't need this, but it would make Debian more useable if some of > them are set to better values than defaults! So why not allow some > packages to modify the environment? because it is a slipperly slope to hell that's why. the packaging system cannot do everything, redhat trys to make it do so and just makes a big sloppy, obfuscated, broken mess. its things like this that make me want to do away with package managers altogether and go to slackware or *BSD where you build everything from source and setup everything yourself. where you have CONTROL over how things are done. rather then complicated screwy messes designed to make things easy for a grand automated package manager and users who can't configure themselves out of a box. debian thus far is a good balance between convenience of a package manager and direct control over how things work, lets not wreck it. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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