On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:22:17AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 21-05-2005 14:35, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:34:12PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > >>Imagine a Debian package "tweaks" with a big bunch of pre-seeding > >>answers and idempotent (read: cfengine) scripts - a little like > >>autoconf-archive but organized in OWL classes shared with debtags and FAI. > > > > > > Please imagine something else. The d-i has an explicit support for > > language-specific tweaks at install time. > > I believe I then failed to properly express my point: > > All autoconf-based code projects also has explicit support for the > snippets in autoconf-archive. > > What I imagine is a well-defined archive of snippets needed for various > larger system configuration projects - whether they use FAI, cddtk, d-i > directly, CVS maybe, or some homebrewn structures. > > FAI has such archive already, each snippet independent of the other, and > all snippets organized to be able to include only the relevant ones by > meta-expressions (FAI "classes"). > > > What is new is that I want this well-organized archive of tweaks > _shared_ among several system configuration systems (not only FAI, but > also distro projects like CDD and d-i, and also homebrewn tweaking > setups). The keys to lift it out is IMHO to package it seperately > (suppressing recommends of the larger FAI package is discouraging) and > shift the organisation of the pile into one shared with package > selection projects (FAI classes <=> debtags facets).
And you don't want to call those tweaks "packages" because? Packages can be home-made. They don't have to come from an official Debian archive. Can you provide an example of such a tweak that cannot be expressed as a debian package? -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 +972-50-7952406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
