First of all: could you please configure your editor to wrap your lines? Right now it looks horrible. If you're using vim I suggest adding an autocmd that sets the textwidth to 72 if you are writing email. Also, please don't quote complete message when you reply, it's a complete waste of bandwidth. TIA. Previously Richard G. Roberto wrote: > This sounds similar in principal to what I've been proposing for > almost two years on this topic (even before this list was created). I know. At the time I wasn't interested. Then I got a job to adminster a network of Linux machines, which grew from 1 to 120 machines. Suddenly I became very interested in this.. > Can this be re-worded into multiple phases that we can start refining > in discussion? It sounds like phase one is to have a configuration > layer to interface with, and phase two is to provide a way to convert > packages to interface to it. In that numbering I'm currently working on phase 0: the database in which we store everything. I agree with the next two phases. > Can this be as simple as having an intermediate script simply > take questions from a package installation script, present them to the > user, get the user's response(s), and provide the answers to the > package installation script? Provided we allow for some controlflow between the two, yes. > It may be difficult to get buy in from people if all we had was this > first bit and a bunch of loose ideas about what to do next. It's just as difficult to get people on a mailinglist to actually focus on what you want them to focus on.. WIchert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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