Previously Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: > o Changing packages to interface to a configuration layer rather > than just the user. > > This one is fairly simple, right? Does anyone have a problem with > dpkg-question or dpkg-config or whatever being used to do *all* user > interaction? Is there any situation that cannot be covered by the use > of 'dpkg-config variablename' and arbitrary data about variablename > being provided elsewhere? Wrong. dpkg-question is evil in that it only allows you to answer a single question at a time. That is silly of course, and it makes lots of sense to group questions together and ask them all at once in a single screen/dialog/webpage/whatever. Also another *very* important aspect is that we can change the degree of interactivity of the install. Did you see how many people were complaining on debian-devel a while ago about all the interactivity? It's really horrible if you are managing things like clusters or labrooms. Most users also don't care about most questions. > o Making a more flexible configuration language that will simplify > the task of making configuration scripts. That isn't planned at all. > I have a certain amount of experience with jumping headlong into > huge projects. We started this discussion back in may actually, so you can't say we're jumping into this.. 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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