Re: Task-help & Wizards

[The Gecko <gecko@benham.net>]

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On 27-May-98 Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> Software \\should almost always be able to configure itself. Changes to
> environment can be made through files in /etc/profile.d/ , adding
> something to cron also just involves adding a file in the right place,
> adding to initialisation : just add files under /etc/rc.d. Also, most
> packaging methods allow post install scripts. 


But most software doesn't/can't.  And the one's that do, don't necessarily do
it right for a given distribution.  Wizards is still a good idea until Linux
comes out with one guy/group/comany that creates the one GUI interface that
everybody will write software for.

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