Re: Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 15:23:45 +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
> <opinion>
> The current behaviour is far more sensible to a non-expert user than
> the opposite behaviour, where he installs (say) apache, then bombards
> the list with messages with the subject 'broken apache - doesn't
> start' so that he can be told he needs to 'update-rc.d apache start 90
> 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .'. A user who wants a web-server shouldn't
> then have to figure that out to start the web-server.
[snip]
So, why not asking via a dialog box?
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