> Cool idea but takes all the fun out of Debian. :-)
>
> On a more serious note though, having had the unfortunate pleasure of working with the family of *BSD's and Solaris' -- Debian is by far the easiest to
> administer and work with. I think the other issue you will have, as have been stated, is that there are so many configurations and variations of
> configuration options out there, that it would be very difficult to make something as all encompassing that would please a majority.
I'm thinking along the lines of a Wiki style system where the (expert user) community contributes the
"recipes" to the database, in much the same way that they currently contribute to the "message board
database" by answering people's posted queries.
You are right in saying that there are lots of configurations and variations of options out there. Working out a system that
can cope with this will be a significant part of the challenge. I think we might find some help there though in the dpkg
system which seems to do a very good job of dealing with its relevant configuration details.
Thanks again for your input!
Yours Sincerely,
Jarrod O'Flaherty.