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Re: Thoughts regarding package installation



Chris Fearnley:
> OK, I see we need a working cfgtool first.  But once that's available
> why can't some packages use it and others do not.  Of course, the full
> benefit can't be realized until all packages use it, but ...

It's fairly likely that as we start to use cfgtool, we will
notice things that need to be improved. If any of those require
changing the interface, we're going to have problems.  I'd rather
we waited until after Debian 1.2.

> At least I want an option to turn off each package (leave it installed
> for manual testing and documentation reading, but otherwise off

dpkg --unpack?

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