Re: possible new debconf interface
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> Will change to this:
>
> echo INPUT medium foo/bar >&$DEBCONF
> read ret <&DEBCONF
>
> Of course, one is free to run 'exec 0<&$DEBCONF_SOCKET 1>&$DEBCONF_SOCKET'
> and then just talk to it on stdin and stdout as in the first example
> above.
Which is it, the former, or the latter? I prefer the latter, or maybe
DEBCONF_PIPE. There should be no confusion about what the variable means, and
DEBCONF could be confusing, by itself.
I might see myself using DEBCONF to mean debconf is available.
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