automatix questions

[John Vivirito]

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> Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> 
>> On ma, 2006-06-05 at 21:42 +0200, Jan Vancura wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Considering how many people read this list - i wouldn't fear the
>>> flames... and I'm quite curious on how teh IRC team stands on aut'x
>>> and EU as well.
>>>   
>>
>> My first reply went in private to John, sorry for that.
>>
>> My position on a-x will remain the same. Last time I looked at it, it
>> could not be fixed without ditching the codebase and starting from
>> scratch. I feel a bit icky about e-u but have to admit I didn't look at
>> recent versions yet. I see no reasons not to recommend e-u.
>>
>>  
>>
> I checked the source for a-x yesterday.
> I shuddered.
> 
> Need I say more
> 
> Best to read the docs as RG says himself in mails.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
i havent looked at either code to be truthful but i have never and i
wont until i know neither are unsafe in any way shape or form. i have
heard very bad things about automatix and im thinking for E-U to be
"easy" as they say i have a feeling it does some -y stuff without
prompting the user as to what to do. if im gonna install something on my
pc i wanna know what its gonna do or how to do it. if linux users dont
want to learn how linux works than way switch. i think this is more of
an option for someone more experienced than a new windows user comming
over from windows. if something gets screwed up (is this something a new
user can fix without reformatting)? personally i think if you sit there
and read the wiki's they are really not that hard to understand (the
commands to run are right there like the ff1.5 its pretty much a cut and
paste job. something ubuntu could use is something that will install and
configure say LAMP for you. im assuming that lamp config is something
that needs info your pc already has as in ip or host name or something
like that. (never succeeded in setting it up so hard to say).


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