On 12/18/2010 11:55 AM, Mattia Dongili wrote:
why again and again? The user does it once and that's it. And only if
the default behaviour is not appropriate (which I doubt happens that
often).
excately. i'll explain again:
* user installs cpufrequtils for the first time.
* cpufrequtils asks stuff like governor etc. with debconf. the
defaults can be either be set to something statically, or
determined automatically
* whatever values are determined, either user input or defaults,
gets written to /etc/default/cpufrequtils.
* if user wants to change something, he either changes the value
in /etc/default/cpufrequtils with $editor, or runs
dpkg-reconfigure cpufrequtils
* any upgrade just reads in /etc/default/cpufrequtils first,
and repopulates the file with those values, or if user
entered other values to the debconf questions with those.
do you see the difference?
the existing package is a package that only works. a package with
debconf handling for /etc/default/cpufrequtils is a package that is
*integrated*. for debian, we don't just want packages that work, we want
them integrated.
as said previously, you don't have to reinvent the wheel, tftp-hpa (and
others) are doing that already, you can just copy paste. not wanting to
'deal' with it is a lame excuse, it's less than 10min of work. if you
don't want to do that, let me know and i'll prepare a patch.
If anyone wants to change the defaults he can do it without being
asked to install a new version of the conffile over and over (that's
what I meant for issues there).
that's never happening in above described scenario. since debconf knows
which questions have been seen and which not, once you entered the
values at the *first* installation, the user will never ever again see
any debconf question (unless manually triggered by the user with
dpkg-reconfigure).
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