On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:24:57PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:28:33PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Yet another reasons for wanting to decouple installation and > > > configuration is if some hardware company (such as VA^H^H Emperor > > > Linux) wishes to ship Debian pre-installed on the system. In that > > > case, installation happens at the factory, and not when the user > > > receives it in his/her hot little hands. > > Given the number of config questions today that have to do with > > available hardware, I have a hard time believing that a strict split > > between installation and configuration tasks really addresses the needs > > of such vendors. It also seems that all of the above are achievable > > within the framework debconf currently provides > You've just contradicted yourself. > If it's possible to achieve all of the above within the framework debconf > currently provides, then a strict split between installation (preinst, > unpack and postinst) and configuratin (config and templates) really > addresses the needs of such vendors. If, on the other hand, it doesn't, > then it's not. Sorry, "all of the above" was meant to refer to the three different modes of invoking the dpkg-configure command. I believe it's possible to provide such a split today using debconf, but I don't believe this split addresses the needs of vendors trying to provide pre-installed systems. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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