On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 04:07, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Seth Nickell"> > > > Depends on what you mean by "fair," *wink*. RPM doesn't ask questions, > > which is perhaps a missing feature because you just get this glob on > > your disk with no idea what to do next, but it also makes it feasible > > for good graphical package managers to exist. It may have been accident > > on their part, it may have been design decision, I don't know. > > Although various parts of Debian are not ready for this (pointed out > earlier), I strongly believe that non-interactive package installations as > *policy* (rather than as a system setting, ala Debconf notifications) are a > bad idea. > > This is an infrastructural issue; the software needs to be fixed, not the > policy.
I didn't say it should be policy that packages shouldn't have a "setup/questioning" phase. From my perspective what would be a nice policy (it would be a policy that enforces the theoretical idea that graphical package managers should be possible, because they are serious secound class citizens right now) is that if configuration gets used (I think a good design choice) it works through a standardized system like debconf that can be wrappered in a graphical interface. -Seth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
