On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 23:03 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:15:28PM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> > >But that file still has to be executed once in order to complete the
> > >package's configuration (or whatever you want to call it).
> > 
> > I see this as part of the application, NOT part of the package.
> 
> Fair point.  But should each application invent its own status reporting
> mechanism?  Or should we provide a generic one?

Someone (Moinak?) had a good point about this recently, in comparison
with debian packaging.  Handling package installation and configuration
as separate steps but being able to query the status of the package.

Laca


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