Le Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait: > This is a bit long, so I'll summarize: > > Debconf is a tool that packages can use to ask questions when they are > installed. It allows various frontends, from dialog, to gtk to web pages > to be used, and it also allows for non-interactive package installs, and > allows packages to ask questions all at once, before any of them are even > installed.
I did not yet check/test your work but I'm sure that it's great ! I wonder if you think that debconf is good/mature enough to be used for potato. If yes, how many packages are interactive in their postinst ? If debconf is working well and if we can push it into base then I'm willing to open QA tasks that would ask to correct all interactive packages to use debconf ... Imagine how great it could be if we could say that potato can install itself if you want ! Later we may even modify the policy to forbid interactivity in postinst unless debconf is used ... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CDs Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd </pub>
