Automatix?

[Daniel Carrera]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> So I'd expect all systems on which automatix was used to be broken in
> some way or the other, but it always depends on how the system is
> actually used to show the symptoms. In most use cases (which don't
> involve upgrading), the users will probably not notice them and be happy
> that he has additional functionality, but will screem and blame ubuntu
> developers for a broken update to the next release.

That seems like a probable consequence of changing sources.list or doing 
an echo "\nY\n". No obvious errors at first, but major problems on the 
next upgrade.

I read a review on Automatix (this is what prompted my original 
question). The reviewer tried it on a pristine Ubuntu box and it crashed 
twice on her without feedback, and she still gave it an "A". That seems 
like a good example of the user not realising that something is broken 
(the crashes should have warned her) and being happy with the functionality.

Here's the article:

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/12/209257

Cheers,
Daniel.
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