Automatix vs AutomatiKs

[Brad De Vries]

On 3/17/06, Simon Rönnqvist <simon at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Friday 17 March 2006 17:11, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > On Friday 17 March 2006 08:11, Gavin Dudley wrote:
> > > *newbie*
> > > Anyone used the Automatix configuration tool on their Kubuntu systems? I
> > > was disturbed to note that, as kewl as it is, the KDE-specific
> > > AutomatiKs tool doesn't have nearly as much stuff as Gnome's Automatix.
> > >
> > > So I am wondering what is the worst that could happen if I ran the
> > > *wrong* one.
> > >
> > > blodot
> > >
> > > --
> > > -
> > > ... but who watches the watchmen?
> >
> > As the bot on #kubuntu says:
> >
> > [10:10] <jjesse> !automatix
> > [10:10] <ubotu> somebody said automatix was unsafe, it overwrites
> > configuration files, and does things like "echo -e 'ynYn'" that are
> > considered risky. Please do not use it. There are alternative applications,
> > but it's often best to read the documentation.
>
> But this probably means that Automatix isn't safe for Ubuntu (GNOME) either.
> I haven't heard about anybody having any problems with it though... but
> personally I don't like that it replaces the sources.list file and otherwise
> does some things in rather un-debian ways. ;-)
>
> I think the bottom line is, are you a do-it-yourselfer or not... Automatix
> will annoy do-it-yourselfers but others probably will like it.
>
>   cheers, Simon

I'm thinking that when I installed automatix on my Kubuntu system, it
asked if I wanted to keep the new or revert back to the original
sources.list file.  If you answered that you wanted to keep the new,
it renamed the existing before overwriting.  If you answered that you
wanted to revert back to the original, then that's what it did.

It's been awhile since I installed it so my memory may not be
completely accurate, thus YMMV.

Brad.