On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'll be rewriting it from scratch over the coming months and trying to > > work out a strategy for letting the user select between up to three > > sources of information: > > > > 1) what the autodetection tools (if any) say > > 2) what the debconf database already says (if anything) > > 3) what the X server config file already says (if anything) > > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only > if that fails, offer the user a choice of options. The Debconf spec won't let me do that. If DEBIAN_PRIORITY is "low", I need to grind to a halt and wait for the user to confirm, e.g., the usage of the "XFree86" server and "tdfx" driver for his Voodoo3 3000 card. > If the autodetection tools give incorrect information, then that's a > bug in those tools we should fix. If the X server doesn't get enough > information from the autodetection tools, then we should fix that. I agree, but there is simply no way to completely eliminate the interactivity, *even if* the autodetection tools work perfectly, and still play the Debconf game. If we want to discuss this more we should move over to debian-x. -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to branden@debian.org | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
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