Re: cleaning up our task packages
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, David Schleef wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:16:49PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> > Now John, I consider myself fairly competent; however, with three dhcp
> > clients to choose from (an actual situation from many months ago) many
> > folks won't know which one is *best*, as defined by ``works on the
> > kernel as shipped''. How are end users, installing their first Debian
> > box, supposed to know that bozo-dhcpcd hasn't been supported for many
> > months (but is still in the distribution) but bozo-dhclient-clown is
> > known to work on the kernel shipped by Debian, is well-supported, and
> > runs easily.
>
> This is a documentation issue. I've many times longed for a
> document that describes the issues involved with, for example,
> installing exim vs. sendmail, the various dhcp clients, etc.
> Perhaps I haven't found it yet in Debian -- in which case it
> should be advertised more. However, if nobody steps forward
> and says "Yes, it exists", I'll start one.
THANK YOU! THIS is what I've been trying to say
> IMO, this kind of documentation would be a bazillion times better
> than any find-grained task-* structure.
>
>
> > *THIS* is where the task- system will help new users -- competent or
> > not. It allows Debian to help people choose, when they don't know what
> > is best -- not when they are too stupid to know what is best.
>
> If this is really true, then why do we even have the other
> packages?
>
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>
> dave...
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