On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 05:34:53PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Indeed, the XSF is carrying around tons of shell functions that are
> generally useful and so should go in to some sort of central package, but
> there's nowhere to put them. Getting something like this started has been
> on the backburner for me for a while. I'd happily contribute what we've got
> to such a package, or help start one up.
Yeah, but a point is: should we make the snippet in a package and then
have a dependencies on this? This is going to be suboptimal since some
of those snippets have to be called in preinst and pre-depends are not
nice ...
Alternatively, we can have a library of snippets shipped by debhelper
and a generic debhelper tool to expand snippets in maintainer scripts,
but this sounds ugly as well (or not?).
Or, we should have a dh_something for each purpose, but that will bloat
the dh_namespace.
Cheers.
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