Denis Barbier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 07:14:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Enough already. > > > > Folks, if you don't stop abusing debconf with useless notes that belong > > in README.Debian and config file overwriting, I will stop maintaining > > it. > > > > Stop slapping incorrect uses of debconf in everywhere. Feel free to run > > any package using debconf by me before you upload it, or take the time > > to understand yourself how things should work. > > I do not understand exactly what is good and bad use of debconf. > For instance all questions asked by the debconf package have good default > values, so there is no reason to prompt user, a configuration file is > enough. So what am I missing?
The only reasons debconf itself asks those questions still are: - example of how debconf works - they _are_ overridable with the config file, in an appropriate way - it's not asked at new installs anyway - people are used to that I did have some bad ideas about how debconf could be used back years ago when I wrote it. Those debconf questions (and some really ill-advised stuff slrn used to do) were the result. -- see shy jo
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