On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 08:53:03PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > I never replied to this. Sorry. It came in at a busy time and then > got buried in my inbox. :-( That's all right. > Anyway, since that time, maybe there have been lots of changes. We've > also seen the introduction of xdebconfigurator which seems to be the > type of tool you imagined -- something that would answer the debconf > questions in advance, at least in some cases. xdebconfigurator is ultimately orthogonal to what I'm trying to achieve with the X server debconf questions. Ideally, the X server debconfage should just expose the most desirable configuration parameters to poke. I'd like to get stuff like the "Simple/Medium/Advanced" monitor selection methods out of there. Tools like xdebconfigurator can potentially do a vastly better job of such things, not necessarily being limited to debconf's user interface tools, and separately maintained I'm hoping they can be more aggressively hacked on and brought up to a standard that will make our users happy. Moreover, by decoupling the user hand-holding and hardware probing, multiple front-ends can spring into being, competing with and complementing each other. > So... I'm just curious on where we are with this. I'm still happy to > do additional testing on the debconf changes in xserver-xfree86, but I > didn't want to just pick up where I left off three months ago since > additional progress or changes in thinking may have happened since > then. For now, I'm just going to file my old email on this bug and > assume that the right thing will happen, but if you'd like me to do > any additional testing or to go ahead and send the config log from my > attempts at configuring from the latest versions of the config > scripts, I'm glad to do so. For now, I don't need you to do anything, but someday soon I may ask for more feedback. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | The word "power" is an obscenity in Debian GNU/Linux | a democracy. branden@debian.org | -- Andy Jacobs, Jr. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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