Re: Configuration!

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:44:54PM +0100, Martin Wackenhut wrote:
| Hi folks,
| 
| after setting up LFS I am switching back to a distribution.
| In comparison to SuSE I miss some configuration tool like Yast.
| Could not find any hint in the docs about that.
| I know about dselect and apt.
| 
| So is there anything like Yast around in Debian?
| Short answer is sufficient.

$EDITOR

<grin>

Debian puts the job of configuring the system in your hands.  It
organizes the config files so that they are as easy as possible for a
human to locate and work with them.  For some packages some
configuration is done with 'debconf' (you access it via
"dpkg-reconfigure <pkgname>").

-D

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