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Re: use debconf directly from init.d?



Chris Hanson wrote:
> I don't know the design decisions that went into debconf, but what I
> am suggesting looks consistent with the design document in
> "/usr/share/doc/debconf/specification.txt.gz".  In that document,
> debconf looks very much like a database, and it seems strange that I
> should need to replicate the contents of the database in another
> database (if a flat file can be called that) before I use it.

Debian is intended to be a unix-like system, and a hallmark of unix-like
systems is that you can configure programs by editing text files.

-- 
see shy jo



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