Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Philip Hands wrote:
> Presumably variable names can have more than one / in them ?

Yes.

> If so, it might be worth calling such variables something like:
> 
>   shared/news/server
> 
> to avoid name space pollution, and to emphasise the fact that there is
> not a package called ``news'' (virtual or otherwise).

Hm, I like that idea.

I've written up some preliminary specs on managing the namespace, and that
is part of it.

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