Re: KISS

[Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>]

Le Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 09:50:26AM +1100, Chris Leishman écrivait:
> Hi all,

[...]

> Is there a problem with this sort of approach?

I've already proposed something similar in debian-policy :
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9811/msg00091.html

The only problem that is difficult to solve is the backward
compatibility of {pre,post}inst script. They should run on systems that do
not have dcfg* utilities. Of course, we could make package depend on
dcfg but I don't see the need of adding a dependence to hundreds 
of packages...

I also proposed the presence of a pre-configure script in
order to fill in the database before the installation.

Happy new year !
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