Chris Hanson wrote: > I don't know the design decisions that went into debconf, but what I > am suggesting looks consistent with the design document in > "/usr/share/doc/debconf/specification.txt.gz". In that document, > debconf looks very much like a database, and it seems strange that I > should need to replicate the contents of the database in another > database (if a flat file can be called that) before I use it.
Debian is intended to be a unix-like system, and a hallmark of unix-like systems is that you can configure programs by editing text files. -- see shy jo
