On 1 Oct 2002 at 21:36, Rick wrote: > The Real Problem With Debian is that it is MANUAL.
I agree. Software shouldn't ask user about program's own problems. It should ask about user's preferences and goals. All technical stuff should be done by application because it's application's responsibility. If there is no way to do it automatically, software should at least *test* whether information entered by user is correct. The problem with Debian is that it's a collection of programs written by thousands of developers. Debian simply inherits their problems. Fixing these programs one by one is much better idea than developing some patch-all "configuration tool". My latest experience with such lean program is samba. I wanted to export a share. Ideally one should just select a directory and confirm some options. After doing everything I was asked to do, well, it didn't work. And samba didn't tell me why. It pretended everything is OK. After messing up for an hour a gave up and configured FTP instead. FTP, in contrast, worked fine at first shot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
