Re: debai app

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:16:57PM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> There should be a package "joe-debian-user.1.0.deb" (a. k. a.
> "debai.1.0.deb")- with the help of which a non-techie user would be
> able to fix any problem that he/she could ever encounter while using
> Debian.

why stop there?  if you're wishing for the impossible, there should be other
packages called instant-world-peace and magical-solution-to-all-problems, too.


what you're asking for isn't possible.  

if a novice user wants to get full use of their system, if they want to be
able to diagnose and fix problems, then they *MUST* be willing and able to
learn.  there is no way to avoid this requirement.  there is no magic fix,
there is no point-and-click way to solve all problems.  even if it were
possible to think of all possible problems in advance and if it were possible
to devise a one-size-fits-all-situations tutorial for fixing them it would
make more sense to modify the code so that the problems couldn't occur or were
self-correcting. 

craig

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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)