Re: Consesus on Linuxconf?

1998-06-04 Thread Andreas Degert
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > please don't answer too quickly; if you think about it a second > > (in the context of the thread) you will realize that I wrote about > > syntactically and semantic

Re: Consesus on Linuxconf?

1998-06-04 Thread Andreas Degert
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, i meant you can't prevent the parser to error out on some edited > > config files, not that it will happen with every edited config file. > > config files which

Re: Non-interactive install proposal

1998-06-03 Thread Andreas Degert
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] > > > I prefer the a

Re: Consesus on Linuxconf?

1998-06-03 Thread Andreas Degert
Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> --This might mean that Linuxconf will error out if it can't parse the file, > >> if you've made private changes to it. That's the tradeoff, you take a risk > >> that you won't be able to use linuxconf if you privately edit the file. We > >> will work

Re: Non-interactive install proposal

1998-06-03 Thread Andreas Degert
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Why can't you ask all the questions first? I am too thnking of > the kernel image package. I can easily design a framework that > gathers all the data a priori -- and yes, you have a point; > Andreas> because the questions depend on th

Re: Consesus on Linuxconf?

1998-06-03 Thread Andreas Degert
Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if we have reached some sort of consesus on Linuxconf. > > The points that I see are > > *Linuxconf can't lose any info. > --This might mean that Linuxconf will error out if it can't parse the file, > if you've made private changes to it

Re: Non-interactive install proposal

1998-06-03 Thread Andreas Degert
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > >> What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured > >> state? > > Drake>It's a reminder to me that I need to configure this package still. > >