Re: Online help
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:50:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> The design I currently believe to be sensible is to add an optional
> 'Help' field to debconf questions. This field would contain the name of
> another question, probably Type: text, whose Description would contain
> the help text to be displayed (translated in the usual way). The reason
> to do it like this rather than just having 'Help', 'Help-fr', etc.
> fields in the question is that this allows multiple questions to share
> the same help text, which I expect would be particularly useful in the
> partitioner.
I'm in agreement with this, having felt for a while that a generic help
interface is something that we're missing from debconf (with the d-i use
case at the top of my list).
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