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Re: Configuration management



On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote:

> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > For simple packages I (the user) probably do NOT CARE what they configure
> > themselves to be. I have no interest in mime-type configuration, no desire
> > to do things with my mailer or apache. I just want them to work and I
> > don't want to be bothered because I have nothing to tell them.
> > 
> > 99% of all packages should require very, VERY minimal configuration but
> > on the flip side packages should be highly configurable and have lots of
> > questions! The goals conflict :>
> 
> Not really, you just need to have priorities on questions.

I think I said this before, that's not very fine grained. Unless you think
each package should prompt before it configures weather you want  'low'
'medium' or 'high' priority questions!

Jason


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