Packaging an IRC Server, worth it?

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Hi

I was looking into IRC Servers and saw that ircd-hybrid is a lightweight daemon which is already present in Debian repositories. Anyone wanting to host their own IRC server can simply follow any tutorial like this and open the correct ports.

My question is whether it is worth it to package this as a solution where the user can simply enter the configuration on the web interface and the IRC server is automatically setup.

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My opinion, no.

If you are techy enough to even know what IRC is, you can probably handle running it yourself.

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One of the aim of YunoHost is to make things easier, so I think it can be worth it.
I am capable of installing things myself, but on my server I prefer to rely only on YunoHost apps, for more security.

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