Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, for example, is in Perl. You may define
> functions, variables, closures (given enough make-kpkg-fu) and have it
> all work.
Agreed. But this is valid for power user that would not really need
the safe merge capability provided by Config::Model.
> I dare you to try one for sendmail.cf. (and yes, often don't
> use the new fangled m4 stuff)
A complete model of sendmail.cf would also be required only for power
users like you.
For the "mother-in-law use case", it would be more useful to validate
that upgrades will work correctly for "Config::Model enabled"
packages. Later on, the more packages use Config::Model, the easier
will be the system maintenance of "most common" users.
All the best
--
Dominique Dumont
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need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner
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