On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:44:48PM -0000, Tom Rothamel wrote: > On 26 Mar 2000 07:45:18 -0500, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > I don't mind improving dpkg, but if we're going to add some new > > frontend it should use debconf. We're slowly starting to move to > > using debconf for all user interaction and having dpkg itself use > > something else would be silly. > > I agree that all user interaction should be through debconf, if > possible... that's jyst a good idea for user interface consistency. I > just think that dpkg should have a generic way of asking the user the > conffile replacement question.
Wichert is just asking that the frontend/program use debconf. I'm totally against this whole thing mind you, unless dpkg retains someway of working without debconf, or an external program, as a fall back. I don't want a broken perl upgrade to kill my package system. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
