Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?
George Shuklin:
> On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote:
>>
>>> There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely
>>> declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts?
>> Probably dpkg doesn't support declarative mechanisms for those things.
>>
>> Some of them have standardised snippets from debhelper.
>
> Well, I understand that.
>
> I rephrase my question: Is this a well-thought decision or it's because
> "no one done this"? Is there some kind of opposition to (partially)
> declarative format for debs?
>
Hi,
You may find the following Debian wiki page interesting:
* https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeclarativePackaging
Thanks,
~Niels
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