Re: push for policy change; conditionally setting environment variables

["C. Gatzemeier" <c.gatzemeier@tu-bs.de>]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 18:22 schrieb Micah Anderson:

> there 
> is an interesting discussion happening there that seems to me the
> debian-custom list would be interested in.

Yes, a common way to conditionally set environment variables seems to be 
missing. It should be an important thing to hook config modularisation / 
profiles into.

A pluggable authenticatin module or a patched PAM-system that allows this may 
perfectly solve this, I guess.





> I thought it worthy to draw this list's attention to this bug for two
> reasons. One there has only been one person seconding it,

Just wanted to add that the objection I first had because it sounded to me 
like a "must" policy had been cleared away. I see how a "should" can help in 
raising awareness and letting patches in.


Actually, I agree this has been done already by mentioning debconf in policy. 
Still not all debconfizing whishes / patches make it in, right?

Now, imagine a debconf system that supports a configuration modifier helper 
library[0] (modularized/multilevel), or even only much simplified debconf 
maintainer scripts because they can use the helper library.

*That* may change the situation with real momentum.



Regards,
christian


[0]
I had posted the list of desired features I once gathered from different 
interest groups up in this thread.