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Subject: Re: Installation Issues & Suggestions
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ math . uh . edu>
Date: 10 Oct 2000 18:51:16 -0500
To: Mj2 Development Lists <majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com>, mj2-dev @ csf . colorado . edu
In-reply-to: Brock Rozen's message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:33:25 +0200 (IST)"
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>>>>> "BR" == Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org> writes:

BR> But, I think, it most definitely needs to be done.

It would be nice to have a volunteer here who understands the needs of the
packaging systems.  I can do the work, but I'm not sure exactly what you
can and can't do.  I have made RPMs but I wouldn't call myself an expert.

BR> Otherwise we're unneedlessly making installation and usage too
BR> hard...

Is it really hard now, though?  I can't imagine anything easier than the
current Q&A installation setup.  I think it needs to be preserved.
Hand-editing config files is really not the best thing to inflict on
folks.  Moving this until after a make install step really changes very
little but allows packages to work; the installer wouldn't see much change
(an extra step) but if what we have now makes installation and usage too
hard then what we'll have afterwards won't really make it any easier.  (You
can actually add domains on the fly now, but nobody's written the code to
do it.  It would still have to be written after any of these changes.)

 - J<



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