Re: Proposal: Automatic query servicing for dpkg installation scripts
Hi,
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
Raul> Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> 2. Only a particular package can determine which questions need to be
>> asked in what order; in particular, following questions can depend on
>> the previous ones. This means that we can't specify the questions in
>> advance in a file. Instead, we have to put the information in
>> command-line arguments to the query program.
Raul> But a package should be able to grandfather responses from previous
Raul> package instances. We have plenty of instances where new package
Raul> names are needed for what is essentially the same package. [Not
Raul> that it's always appropriate to grandfather responses...]
Umm, I am not entirely sure I follow. The ``but'' seems to
imply you object to the statement; however, there may be o
``grandfather'' packages installed; either becuse this is a new
install, or because the user had chosen not to install any related
packages until now. Perhaps you meant ``Additionally,'' instead of
``But''?
manoj
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