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Re: Post-woody



On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:42:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> *  (Denis Barbier)
> 
> | I do not understand your answer, sorry.
> 
> ok, we'll try again. :)
> 
> | Consider the cvs/pserver template from cvs.templates:
> |   Template: cvs/pserver
> |   Type: boolean
> |   Default: false
> |   Description: Should the CVS pserver be enabled?
> |   [...]
> |    CVS pserver will be installed in inetd, using tcpd wrappers if you answer
> |    "yes" to this question.
> | 
> | As a translator, I cannot decide whether the 'yes' word has to be translated
> | or not, because button label depends upon the selected frontend, it might be
> | either 'yes' or its translation.
> 
> I understand.
> 
> | For instance whiptail is not i18n-ed, so when a German user has selected
> | dialog frontend, he is told to click on the 'Ja' button which does not exist!
> | In order to avoid this annoyance, I suggested to only accept i18n-ed
> | frontends.
> 
> sure.  Note that this is part of the ?consistency and polish? thing,
> it's not needed for d-i to actually be able to do it's work.  It's
> needed in order not to confuse the user.

My .02: By definition the installer is most new users' first contact
with Debian. We should not consider it to be 'working' if it confuses
the user.

Also, from a purely software engineering perspective, it's much easier 
to build in a hook you don't need now than to retrofit a capability 
you knew you needed later. IMHO at this point we should be building 
as many hooks as possible, since this code will undoubtedly have a 
life of many years.

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