On 17-Sep-99, 13:23 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Nice job, Joey. I've read (or at least skimmed) the tutorial you posted, and it looks like the various configuration variables are associated with a package via the template "foo/variable". What about variables that are logically shared between packages, such as the default directory for the webservers, or news server name, and such. Is it acceptable for the group of affected maintainers to use the virtual package name as the variable package name? Or would some other way be better? -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
