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Those tools are great and all, but my setup usually involves more than just installing applications. I have a huge pile of registry files which change a lot of windows behaviour. I have configuration files which need to be copied to the right places. I want certain shortcuts in certain places with certain icons. No tool is able to do those things nor are the ones who can do one of these very good or complete. On paper it doesn't sound so complicated. Install these 12 applications, copy these dotfiles to $HOME, these to $SETUPLOCATION. Setup shortcuts and disable the Caps Lock Key, the Firewall and the Library function. In reality I have a ton of tools stacking ontop of each other littering everything with package identification files. Tools which only download over the net because they act like package managers but probably fail because the network hasn't been setup (which they probably can't do on their own anyway). And if the application you want is not available you spent more time creating packages than the whole process would have saved you even if you ran it a hundred times. Tools which describe the whole process in lovely xml files. Modifications are chosen from a list and never have what you want and the scripting support for additional features looks more complicated than the lovely registry file that contains ""Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,3a,00,00,00,5b,e0,\
00,00,5c,e0,00,00,00,00" which probably doesn't make sense to anyone. |