Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I continue to advocate that this creates the wrong sort of 'UI experiance' > for the user. They are forced to run each script in some arbitary > sequence and each package must provide such a script even if they only > need some trivial manipulations. We need to make this simple for the > package maintainer too! We can't do without the script, since we need a way to calculate the priority of a variable. Hmm, unless we give each variable a default-priority and make it possible for the script to change it. > We can generate some configuration elements directly from the data-base in > some instances - ie for the simple example of the dhcp client it can get > the host list to run on directly from the database each time it is > started. Likely several other services are like that.. That's not what I meant. If someone uses SNMP to change (for example) to change the NNTP-server we should use, something needs to act upon that change to reconfigure all newsreaders to use that new host. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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