Re: Proposal: Automatic query servicing for dpkg installation scripts
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> 2. Only a particular package can determine which questions need to be
> asked in what order; in particular, following questions can depend on
> the previous ones. This means that we can't specify the questions in
> advance in a file. Instead, we have to put the information in
> command-line arguments to the query program.
But a package should be able to grandfather responses from previous
package instances. We have plenty of instances where new package
names are needed for what is essentially the same package. [Not
that it's always appropriate to grandfather responses...]
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Raul
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