From: Bill Mills-Curran <subssn594@charter.net>
I put together a RedHat 7.1 machine recently and was surprised to find that linuxconf was not part of the default installation. It's clearly improved over older versions of linuxconf, so why isn't it installed? Anyone know why?
If you check the file RELEASE-NOTES in the root of the first CD, you will see o Deprecated Packages -- the following packages are deprecated, and could disappear in a future release: - linuxconf "Deprecated" is a polite way of saying that it sucks big greasy chunks through a tiny straw. You may disagree, in which case you should write a 'man' page for it. I don't like a huge program that runs at boot time to update configuration files without telling me what it is doing and has no documentation except for some happy talk*. If you want it, you can install it, what's the problem with not installing what you don't ask for? * From /usr/share/doc/linuxconf-1.24r2/RPM-README: Congratulations! You are now running the most powerful Linux administrative tool known to mankind! I guess it's so powerful that nobody can write down what it does. -- -- Keith Wright <kwright@free-comp-shop.com> Programmer in Chief, Free Computer Shop <http://www.free-comp-shop.com> --- Food, Shelter, Source code. ---