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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Chandrashekar Babu wrote:
mutt configuration can be automated. It can be easily maintained. Can you configure Outlook express without running the Outlook express program ? What if you had to configure Outlook express on 500 machines ? I'm sure you will be busy searching for some tool to automate the process, while I would have mutt setup already ;-).
What's the use of configuring a software if it's not going to be used there ? But I really admire your example of mutt.
Same goes with Microsoft Word - the wizards only complicate things, not simplify!
I'm not against wizards and stuff... just that they are too newbie-friendly, and not flexible enough for a seasoned sysadmin's needs. A Linux sysadmin who finds comfort in wizards is mostly clueless about whats going on underneath these shiny interfaces. Lately, I have come across a lot of Linux "sysadmins" who have no clue about how to disable a service without using redhat-config-* or chkconfig (just in case, they had to boot from a knoppix live CD-ROM to rescue their broken redhat setup).
A distro should take into account a large base of users. Yes, you're right that wizards are not flexible (or infact too irritating ) for a system administrator. But even, after completing a small wizard (in case of debian) the sysadmin isn't shot dead if he modifies the configuration files. :-) .
A person having comfort with wizards and who is totally clueless vi-ing or emacs-ing the configuration files shouldn't be termed as a system administrator.
rrs
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