Re: Using debconf to get answers about which languages to install
Hi Frank, hi all!
On Mit, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> Beware about the differences between conffiles and maintainer-script
> managed configuration files, though.
Yes, this came to my mind as I digged through the debconf documentation.
What do you think is the preferred way to solve this:
On the one hand we have the /etc/texmf/language.d files which work quite
good, users can change them at will etc, upgrades are managed (if I do
not forget to add them to the conffiles ;-). BUT: If someone installs
*ALL* of the texlive-langXXX packages, then latex etc just dies from
exhaustion.
On the other hand we could just eliminate these files and go to debconf
which language-packs should be activated from all the ones installed.
But this does not leave the user the option to edit the different config
snippets.
Is there any comment/remark from you, or one of the DD here?
I would prefer it like it is (less work), i.e. all languages installed
are activated, but if there are too many, well, bad luck (ok).
Best wishes
Norbert
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