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Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality



Joey Hess writes:
> Ideally, if debconf were used, this one question would be asked the first
> time you install a daemon, and all other daemons would inherit it
> thereafter. Quite easily done with debconf..

That's the ideal, but what is the policy now?  Should chrony ask a question
in its postinst or start up chronyd without permission?  Right now policy
seems to me to strongly oppose questions but say nothing about starting 
daemons.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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