[Please direct any XFree86-specific followup to debian-x.] On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:46:00AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Yet another reasons for wanting to decouple installation and > configuration is if some hardware company (such as VA^H^H Emperor > Linux) wishes to ship Debian pre-installed on the system. In that > case, installation happens at the factory, and not when the user > receives it in his/her hot little hands.
I think Debian's headed that direction. Changes of this nature are sometimes slow to reach maturity, though. As an example, I've mentally committed to ditching the current debconfage for the XFree86 X server packages in Debian, possibly replacing it with ucf(-ish) solution. But I haven't gotten around to doing it yet. It's probably safe to say that this item is on my priority list after: * 4.3.0-0pre1v1 released to experimental * xlibs/xbase-clients split/reorg (once settled, safe to release 4.3.0-1 to unstable) -- G. Branden Robinson | Any man who does not realize that Debian GNU/Linux | he is half an animal is only half a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | man. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Thornton Wilder
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