Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades
- To: Harald Braumann <harry@unheit.net>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades
- From: Dominique Dumont <dominique.dumont@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:29:04 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] kgiocwiaiy7.fsf@komarr.gre.hp.com>
- In-reply-to: <20090227200611.06b79952@sbs173> (Harald Braumann's message of "Fri\, 27 Feb 2009 20\:06\:11 +0100")
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Harald Braumann <harry@unheit.net> writes:
>> Agreed. But VCS solution is a 80% success/20% silent
>> failure. Config::Model is a 80% success/20% abort. The latter should
>> be easier to deal with for average user.
>
> But you don't need to silently merge (and thus silently fail in some
> cases). You can still ask the user about confirmation.
Agreed. Some user will think before confirming, others will not.
All the best
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Dominique Dumont
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