On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:50:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > The design I currently believe to be sensible is to add an optional > 'Help' field to debconf questions. This field would contain the name of > another question, probably Type: text, whose Description would contain > the help text to be displayed (translated in the usual way). The reason > to do it like this rather than just having 'Help', 'Help-fr', etc. > fields in the question is that this allows multiple questions to share > the same help text, which I expect would be particularly useful in the > partitioner.
I'm in agreement with this, having felt for a while that a generic help interface is something that we're missing from debconf (with the d-i use case at the top of my list). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
