Re: woody : X install
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:01, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:52:43PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Ok, here's the way I see things happening. We use discover and friends
> > to populate the debconf database, like you do now in the xserver-xfree86
> > .config script. We only ask the user to confirm at a priority of
> > "low". The default for the confirm question is "yes".
>
> Medium. Things can be autodetected wrongly. "Low" is for things that
> can't really be "wrong", just annoying to nitpicky people.
Ok, fair enough.
> PGI already does something similar to what you describe.
I see; how hard would it be to integrate into the main Debian package?
I guess my main point here is that it's a solvable problem; I don't
think this approach goes against the spirit of Debconf at all.
> We long ago solved the looping display manager problem, so it's just as
> well to let the display managers fail. They won't tie up the system for
> long and they let the display managers start again on a good
> configuration even if something is stupid and leaves the
> /etc/X11/x-server-unconfigured file around.
Ok, right. Yeah, that works well. Cool. We're getting there.
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