debconf

debconf

Posted Nov 6, 2003 16:15 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)
In reply to: apt-get by ladislav
Parent article: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Absolutely! And apt-get is not where it ends. Debconf, which can be thought of as "configuration wizards done right", exists only in Debian, and makes maintenance and upgrading of config files and other options for many packages totally pain-free. It is one of many Debian advantages.

config4gnu (mentioned at the link above) is trying to do this for many distros/OSes, but has been stalled at an early and unreleasable stage for many months...

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