Previously Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR wrote: > James LewisMoss writes: > > I think a `half-configured' state is a bad idea. Packages in their > > postinst should pick suitable defaults for anything important. They > > should then run something like "register-interactive-command foobar" in > > the postinst. You have a new stage: configured-but-not-configured or so :) Basically a state that says the user has configured the package but the preinst/postinst have not run yet. > I don't think that a special dpkg option is needed since the interactive > configuration is merely the last step of normal configuration. In fact the > users will think of the interactive configuration as *the* configuration. No, it is done before packages are unpacked. In any case you need dpkg to run the frontend when you do `dpkg -i' on a package, so dpkg will need a few modifications. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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