No, package installers support configuration. Plenty of packages (e.g. postfix) prompt for configuration at install time.
Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 1 week agoApples and oranges.
Package managers only install a package with defaults. These helper scripts are designed to take the user through a final config that isn’t provided by the package defaults.
No need to be elitist about such things.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
splendoruranium@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Apples and oranges.
Package managers only install a package with defaults. These helper scripts are designed to take the user through a final config that isn’t provided by the package defaults.
Whether there’s a setup wizard doesn’t have anything to do with whether the tool comes from a package manager or not. Run “apt install ddclient”, for example, it’ll immediately guide you through all configuration steps for the program instead of just dumping a binary and some config text files in /etc/.
So that’s not the bottleneck or contradiction here. It’s just very unfortunate that setup wizards are not very popular as soon as you leave Windows and OSX ecosystems.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This is trivially solved by having a “setup” script that is also installed by the package manager.