Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:38:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:17:27 +0100, Marc Haber <mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de> said:
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:31:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> This is the beauty of fre software. If you find it so frustrating,
> >> write up a generic tool, and contribute it. And that would follow
> >> the grand old UNIX tradition of each command doing one thing well.
>
> > The task at hand would mean forking ucf, which would be a bad idea.
>
> Then I am sorry to say you have not learned how free software
> works.
Your opinion. Agree to disagree?
> There is no need to fork ucf to create a command that provides
> functionality not in ucf.
the intersection between zmct (zugschlus' magical conffiles tool) and
ucf would be non-negligible and a lot of routine stuff would need to
be present in both packages.
> And, arguably, this functionality should be in a different script
> anyway, perhaps one that can read the simple ucf cache, which, given
> the installed base, is unlikely to change from under you.
Where is the documentation of the stable interface to ucf's cache that
is reliable not to change between ucf releases?
> > Additionally, I'd like a functionality of this importance in a
> > better coder's hand than mine.
>
> Write the code. You might surprise yourself. Or find that
> other people can help out. Or you could contribute the code to be
> included in ucf. But the first step is "do the work."
insufficient time resources.
Greetings
Marc
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