Re: /usr/local (again)

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

From: Stuart Lamble <lamble@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
> Just a suggestion (and probably not a very good one): where a package needs
> to ask a question, perhaps it'd be appropriate to have a script
> postinst.questions (or some such) which can be run after all the other
> packages have been installed and configured?

Another possibility would be to have a script that runs immediately when
you select the package using "dselect", before the package is unpacked, and
squirrels away your input for later. Of course, we'd have to run it from
"dpkg" if "dselect" was not used.

Discussion, please?

	Thanks

	Bruce