Re: Deconf and shared questions

2003-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > How does one discover these templates then? Is this a > hit-or-miss effort based on the packages I may have installed on my > machine? Seems to me that makes it very likely that the user shall be > bombarded with identical questions on install then; I think this >

Re: Deconf and shared questions

2003-07-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:40:06 -0500, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:20:12AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Given that the check is done before asking any question in the >> postinst, if you do install all three of the packages, the first >> one whose posti

Re: Deconf and shared questions

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:20:12AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Given that the check is done before asking any question in the > postinst, if you do install all three of the packages, the first one > whose postinst runs shall ask the question, and create the file; > subsequently, the o

Deconf and shared questions

2003-07-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Now that the focus is turning onto debconf'ing packages, I am going to ask a question that has been plaguing me whenever I start thinking about debconfing some of my packages. I have at least two packages now (dist and mailagent) that can use, and thus care about, the organ