On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:02:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But even that is problematic. It will most likely work for simple cases, > where there are no conflicts and no postinstall scripts. But what to do > about the other cases? Executing the postinstall scripts is out of the > question -- it would totally break the stateless package management > approach we want to have in the GNU system. Without the scripts, many > packages won't work properly...
Incidently, PackageKit forbids installation scripts... There might even be a stow backend for PackageKit already, I didn't check. Probably one can assume that all major GNU programs, plus probably all GNOME programs (for keeping things simple) won't need configuration by the admin at install time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
