On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:42:08AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ... or is this the sort of thing that cannot be noted because > it's pre-install and the debconf system cannot do pre-install > "questions" like it can do pre-configure "questions"?
Debconf scripts do not have a good way of knowing what is or is not going to be installed in the future. They can only check to see what is installed on the filesystem when they run, which might not have very much to do with what is installed a few minutes later. Note that debconf "preconfiguration" means this is the case quite frequently; all debconf questions are asked *before* packages are installed to the filesystem. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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