On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 07:21:35AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > I like this...a lot. The implementation you propose is indeed very > simple and doesn't seem really invasive (except for the impact of > translations of large amount of texts).
Dependent on what online help we actually add, of course ... > Do you think that such support could also be added to debconf > itself? After all, such help system would also be great for regular > packages that use debconf (several of them try to explain everything > in their debconf templates...which is always tricky when the > dimensioning reference is a 80x25 screen). If anything it's probably easier to implement in debconf. I'd be happy to give it a shot there if there's general agreement on the design. > If that isn't possible, that could be an interesting motivation to > finally do what's hosed for years: replacing debconf by cdebconf. The > prerequisite of having all debconf-using packages properly depend on > debconf|debconf-2.0 was achieved for lenny. Joey filed a number of other blocking bugs. Maybe we should beat on those at DebCamp. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
