On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:43:59PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:50:43PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Hmmmm, I've read over and over about this "debconf abuse" and "debconf > > is not a registry" things. > > But, even with debian-installer, we use it as a registry..:-) (look at > > debian-installer/country, for instance.....this could be used by many > > many packages instead of promprting again and again for countries) > debian-installer is essentially one integrated installation sequence, > and you don't have to worry that people will delete the debconf cache > from under you or edit configuration files by hand in the middle of the > installation which would then need to be re-read. This is not the case > in the Debian system proper. ... moreover, I'm pretty sure d-i will still DTRT if you did muddle with the cache mid-install. (Or if not, it's only because cdebconf keeps its cache *in memory*... :) > > Moreover, people fighting against debconf abuse seem to forget > > something : debconf is currently the one and only way to ask for > > settings IN THE USER LANGUAGE. > Surely not? While people may not use it much, gettext(1) is available > and can be used from postinsts. The proposed replacement for debconf note abuse is apt-listchanges + NEWS.Debian, for which there is currently no l10n mechanism. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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