On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:27:31PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> 
> Well, linuxconf is a Good Idea, but I would think most people using Linux 
> would want to eventuly know what is going on with their system so that they 
> could easily change something.  For example, the hostname.  I have been using 
> Linux for quite some time now, and finally feel the need to break away from 
> the distros.  They are great and all, but if you really want your system to 
> run the way you want it to, and no other way, you should build your own.  The 
> automatic confisuration of everything is too inflexable, because they want it 
> to work for the greatest number of people.  And at a begining or intermediate 
> stage, this is fine.  But if you want flexibility, they cant do it for you.  
> For the last 2 years, I have used Slackware and Mandrake, and when I did, I 
> never used the tools they had to configure things. I did it my own way.  It 
> was just  a few months ago I ran into problems with Linuxconf messing things 
> up that I had worked on.  I tried removing it, but the rpms had so many 
> dependancies, I couldnt.  (well, I did, but sort of hosed my system in the 
> process) 

That's why is good to remove it immediately after the installation...

> So to everyone out there who gets sick of linuxconf, setup, or any other 
> general setup tool, you do have another option.  LFS (Linux From Scratch)

When you get sick of it, remove it, or get Debian.

I find great pleasure tinkering with my systems' configurations. But I will 
never again try to compile KDE ...

florin

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