* Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040928 21:30]: > [... about cooperation with cdd ...]
i talked to enrico zini the other day and he suggested to make all the debian-edu components modular. this would mean that it is possible to use parts of our system as nicely preconfigured as they come in our system. for that we need to get debconf pre-seeding to work at package installation time, not just for from-scratch installations. pre-seeding needs to happen *before* any of the packages which we want to configure are unpacked. However, with debians dependency mechanism there is no way to achive that. what we would need is to declare a new reverse pre-dependendy of all the packages which are to be configured upon the pre-seeding package. Today there is no way to declare such a dependency after the fact (meaning: after building those packages). I conclude that for broader technical cooperation between customized debian distros with code and configuration re-use we need changes in dpkg which allow for this.
