[OBORONA-SPAM] Re: Automatix vs AutomatiKs

[Gabriel Dragffy]

I tried this automatix on several fresh installs of breezy and was decidedly 
un-impressed. It uses souerces that are unsupported, and I think they're 
unsupported for a good reason. I have written two scripts that install all my 
necessary codecs and the software I like using the supported repositories as 
well as the slightly more unsafe univer/multiverse ones. But using this 
method had caused me no grief, I;m now waiting for dapper until my KDE is 
upgraded to 3.5.1. And my OO.org to 2 and firefox to 1.5.1, but they still 
work OK even if they are slightly old.

On Saturday 18 March 2006 00:52, Brad De Vries wrote:
> 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.