This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I'm talking about ordering of maintainer scripts in an install run. > > This I understood, but maintainer script are mostly used for simple > tasks and for starting/stopping services. Thus I was asking you if the > case where you want to order the configuration of packages is > justified by the fact that postinst script are used to start service > or if there are other tasks that you would like to do in a postinst > where you could make use of such a feature.
I am (currently) mostly talking about start/stop scripts. But I can also imagine that it might be helpful to have sets of packages with related debconf questions asked in a certain order if they all are installed on the same machine, or conditional support for other software being automatically enabled if it's found on the system, and so on. None of these are currently possible to do reliably. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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