On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:56:48AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:34:17PM +0100, Arthur Korn wrote: > > Craig Sanders schrieb: > > > it wouldn't be a problem at all (in fact, it would be a fantastic tool!) > > > if debconf was also able to accept answers to questions from stdin. > > > > This would be a suboptimal fix. > > what's "suboptimal" about making debconf work like any other unix tool? > > one of the strengths of unix is that data & configuration details can > be piped around and transformed and manipulated using the whole swag of > unix text manipulation tools. plain-text configuration is a strength, > not a weakness. You haven't read "The Unix Philosophy" by Michael Gancarz[1], have you? Great book for any UNIX pundant or newbie alike. The author comes to the same conclusion about UNIX tools, "Everything is a filter." References ---------- 1. ISBN-1555581234 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555581234/o/qid=982866473/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/106-2753579-5532466) -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD
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