list of goals?

[Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.978.org>]

Is there an official list of goals around somewhere?

I plan to write up code and an example package to before the end of break to
meet the goals I'm listing below. If I can satisy other people at the same
time, it would be even cooler.

* Ability to query a package for configurable options. 

* Should be able to vary options based on currently installed software,
  system configuration, etc. (ie, dhcpcd should present the user with a 
  list of valid interfaces to choose from). 

* Ability to store those options somewhere, for use on the same system, or
  optionally on other systems as well.

* Ability for a package to validate configurable options without actually 
  configuring or installing anything, and present error messages in a
  presentation-independant format.

* Options specified in a presentation-independant format. 

* Time consuming tasks to provide completion status information in a
  presentation-independant format.

* Minimal modifications to existing package management tools, backwards
  compatibility where possible. 

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Brian Ristuccia
brianr@osiris.978.org
bristucc@baynetworks.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu