Runlevel Configuration in g-s-t

[Denis Jacquerye]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:15:35 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
[...]
> > This utility seems to be missing. Is this deliberate or will it be
> > included in Ubuntu in the future?
> >
> > P.S.: The bootloader configuration utility also seems to be missing from
> > gnome-system-tools.
> 
> Both of these are disabled and unsupported in Ubuntu (they're not built by
> default, and we see them as beyond the scope of system configuration
> requirements for desktop users - admins can always use the command line
> utilities if they need to change these things).

I think it's counter productive to strip off useful tools simply
because you assume the regular user won't need them. Some advanced
users like well done GUI too, and some keen regular users could find
it useful too.

If such a tool is included in a main package like g-s-t it should
never be removed, because regardless of the distribution people assume
it is there if the package is. I think that if you want to hide the
tool from the regular user that won't need it, instead of removing it,
it should be put in an 'Advanced' (sub)menu.

Denis