On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:22:39PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > 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. ... > > 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. > It is a futile requirement to expect users to read the documentation and actively learn to use the tools. What is needed is a Debian package that instead of storing the files to /usr/share/doc infuses the knowleged straight to the users brain. This can be implemented with an option to apt-get install, naming it --insert-to-brain makes it obvious to new users and this option can even be made the default. -- Tapio Lehtonen Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI GPG public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen
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