(meta) configuration functionality (was: CDD-package inside of Debian or out?)
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Am Friday 20 May 2005 16:06 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Only solution as I see it is that Debian adopts metaquestions like
> "which sound daemon to use as default (if any)?" - similarly to the
> current choice of desktop manager (between KDM, GDM and XDM).
For a start it should be enough to introduce such meta settings within a
configuration management tool or system. Such as CFG or the "tweaks".
> "tweaks" not because I want them to last, but because I want
> our interim hacks to be easily adoptable by package maintainers!
The approaches to allow this seem similar. Providing *functionality* to
change/manage configuration on the installed system according to rules.
From a short glimpse I could not tell how modularized "tweaks" are. I.e. if
maintanance of config file syntax-specific things and default settings for
example can be separated.
It's probably a good idea to go with whatever we can get a broad consensus and
support with.
If a common debian-custom effort could contemplate to also include the needs
of GUI end-users, scripting admins, even app developers and other distros
there are already some developers that wanted to start dcontrol along the
original CFG ideas for debian.
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianControlCenter
-Christian
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