Hi, From: Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:17:10 +1000
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:09:28AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Phillip Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions > > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:49:44 -0400 > > > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 at 09:25:40PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Perhaps update-rc.d or rcconf (as I posted earlier) can be used to get > > > > the desired behavior -- but I do think that being asked by default at > > > > installation time whether to start stuff up at boot time is better > > > > behavior than the current behavior. > > > > Boy...you should get together withthe folks on debian-devel that say > > > the install asks TOO many questions for a beginner to Linux...it would > > > make a good flame war <G> > > > It seems like you could just have a mode w/o many/any questions and a > > mode that asks all the questions that are available -- i.e. Beginners > > can have a beginner's mode of installation, and non-beginners can have > > a non-beginner installation mode...no? > > You mean like maybe assigning different questions different priorities, > and letting the user choose the priority which a question needs to have > before it is asked, with some default assumed otherwise? No. Nice description of what exists currently (-; I just mean something you choose at the beginning of the installation process to circumvent the entire question asking process -- I'm not asking for this -- perhaps I should learn not to respond to comments in posts w/ "<G>"s in them... > Excellent idea. I can't see how we could get this far without such a > system. ;-) Nice sarcasm (-;
