Re: Adding a Pre-Depends on debconf in console-common?
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:37:58AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> It's really ok at all that a preinst depends on debconf?
It's mentioned in debconf-devel(8), so ...
> AFAIK, most packages which use debconf work ok when debconf is not
> installed.
This one does '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule' (as do most of them, in
fact). Unless I miss my guess, that'll return an error when debconf is
not installed.
Relatively few packages bother to adjust their behaviour depending on
whether debconf is or isn't installed these days.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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