Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long documents prior
> to installation. The configure scripts which runs directly after the
> installation should make reading docs unnecessary.
I disagree. You should understand what you are doing. If you don't even
want to know what is going and how you are to use it, what is the point of
having it? Bragging to your friends?
> My totally-newbie friends were both given rex of my HD. They both called
> me after installation and asked how to get X started. Neither had
> configured X in any way. How are they supposed to know?
> The post-install configure script should take care of it.
The installation process is not (necessarily) the place to learn about
packages. Dselect in particular does not have room (unless you've got
some incredible montior and a very long xterm) to give full installation,
configuration, and operation instructions before or during installation.
If it did, how would publishers like O'Reilly and Associates be in
business?
This is the real world. We as humans may have to read a bit and learn a
bit to use a bit of our toys. Remember, it's JUST a computer.
--Pete
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Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst
Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590
Bucknell University templin@bucknell.edu
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