On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:16:49PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Now John, I consider myself fairly competent; however, with three dhcp > clients to choose from (an actual situation from many months ago) many > folks won't know which one is *best*, as defined by ``works on the > kernel as shipped''. How are end users, installing their first Debian > box, supposed to know that bozo-dhcpcd hasn't been supported for many > months (but is still in the distribution) but bozo-dhclient-clown is > known to work on the kernel shipped by Debian, is well-supported, and > runs easily.
This is a documentation issue. I've many times longed for a document that describes the issues involved with, for example, installing exim vs. sendmail, the various dhcp clients, etc. Perhaps I haven't found it yet in Debian -- in which case it should be advertised more. However, if nobody steps forward and says "Yes, it exists", I'll start one. IMO, this kind of documentation would be a bazillion times better than any find-grained task-* structure. > *THIS* is where the task- system will help new users -- competent or > not. It allows Debian to help people choose, when they don't know what > is best -- not when they are too stupid to know what is best. If this is really true, then why do we even have the other packages? dave...
