auto configuration systems

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

for this purpose you are simply using the wrong distro. I've got Ubuntu
installed to help users with some Linux domains, mainly Linux
pro-audio. Ubuntu's policy has advantages and pitfalls.

To make a long story short, my daily Linux and audio DAW is Arch Linux.
Arch Linux doesn't have such a policy as Ubuntu has got, to auto-start
everything that could be auto-started. Other than Ubuntu, Arch Linux
follows upstream as close as possible, IOW there aren't split packages
or any other unusual surprises, such as e.g. distro specific patches.
Arch Linux is a real rolling-release, not like Debian with a freeze.
Arch Linux doesn't have any releases.

What you need to do is migrating to another distro, IOW to Arch Linux
or another distro with a similar policy.

By migrating to a distro that fits closer to your approach, you at
least wouldn't need to run that many "manifests" and you unlikely would
need to edit those "manifests" that often. Depending on what concrete
you try to archive, you might not need any "manifests" at all.

Regards,
Ralf