On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 08:17:16PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Or maybe realize that Joey might perhaps know what he's talking about > > with regard to debconf ... you could go find the text of his talk at the > > last Debian Conference if you like. > > I realise he has an opinion on how things should be done. Depending on your > own viewpoint this may be more influential than others as he is the author > of the tool. As far as I'm concerned I'll use debconf how I please and if > that's against the 'pure' view of others (ie/ *never* call it a registry) > then its just hard luck.
Remember that the thread which spawned this is about configuration file handling which goes against policy. I think that's the guts of the brokenness. > Policy is what matters not the opinion of some jumped up developers! BTW the opinion of this jumped-up developer is "please don't send me private copies of posts to mailing lists". Thanks. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
