Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> The whole purpose of Wichert's spec is to force packages to install with a
> default configuration, and then reconfigure themselves with data from the
> database after installation. Whether questions are (all) asked before or
> after installation is a secondary point....

Er not really. The spec makes that possible, but it's hardly the entire
goal. Make note of the large amount of effort it goes to to allow you to
configure a package *before* installing it as well.

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