debconf preseeding (was: My talk @ Manresa and other things ...)

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

Am Saturday 10 July 2004 17:28 schrieb Sergio Talens-Oliag:

>   I believe that the main problem with debconf pre seeding is that we
>   don't have a standard way of using the questions' answers to modify
>   the configuration files, if we had one (based on cfengine of
>   config4gnu or whatever tool we agree on) the pre seeding used on CDDs
>   like DebianEdu would be a lot easier to add to packages (adding low
>   priority questions to them with sane defaults for the standard Debian
>   distribution).

Just want to mention that debian-desktop is discussing a kind of "debian 
control center" and that config4gnu is also discussed in that context.

An IRC meeting will be held next Sunday, July 18th 2004, at 16:00 GMT, at 
#debian-desktop on irc.debian.org.

Christian