Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

[Aaron Van Couwenberghe <avan@calpoly.edu>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 11:02:58AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:57:42PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> > dpkg -i <package>
> > dpkg-reconfigure
> > 
> > you could just run:
> > 
> > dpkg -i --reconfigure <package>
> > 
> > I'm probably thinking too far ahead right now, though...
> 
> Why would you install the package (which presumably includes
> configuration) and then immediately reconfigure it?

The whole purpose of Wichert's spec is to force packages to install with a
default configuration, and then reconfigure themselves with data from the
database after installation. Whether questions are (all) asked before or
after installation is a secondary point....

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