>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 08:58:14 +0200,
>> Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 16:47:26 -0500, Steve Langasek
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Um, no. *Policy* says that it may not be used as a registry.
> This has always prompted me to ask myself _why_ debconf entries are
> persistent then.
So one does not have to answer the same question over and over
on each install.
> If I _really_ have to parse config files in my config script to
> properly seed debconf to ask the right questions, then why does
> debconf have a database in the first place?
Because not all debconf responses are stored in configuration
files? Some debconf answers influence installation scripts behaviour,
and never impact the installed program behaviour.
manoj
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