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The Saturday 2007-11-24 at 20:21 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
It appears to me that just about everything in YaST is pretty much self
explanatory.
Okay... so, as an example, in Yast > Network Services > NIS Server. How
does that become self-explanatory to someone who has never heard of NIS
before?
This is the case where should be applied: "Don't touch what you don't
understand." Though, you know kids, they never listen this particular advice.
No, such a thing has no place in Yast.
Even further... Click on Help in the NIS Server module and the
following message comes up:
"Select whether to configure the NIS server as a master or a slave or
not to configure a NIS server."
For this is applicable sentence from kernel help that is repeated often for
exotic options:
"If you don't know what this means, you don't need it."
This is accompanied with URL where you can pick up more information what
particular option means and decide whether you need it or not.
But to find that in the kernel you have to "go inside". Yast is a tool
that makes administrators out of users: it must explain, it must be easy,
it must be accessible and non dangerous.
It can be as easy as firing up the browser pointed at the relevant page of
the suse administration or reference manual that explains what a NIS
server is, or what setting up a printer involves, at the click of mouse on
a help button.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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