On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:21:17PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I started this afternoon submitting bugs against packages which print verbose > output in their maintainer scripts. The future that Debian must take is to
A thread came up here a little while back about installation scripts sometimes not being able to use debconf for security or other reasons. But we would like an interference-free install. So what about introducing a dpkg-postconfigure program which runs package.postconfig files after any dpkg run has finished, in an analagous way to dpkg-preconfigure. Only this time, it will be only for things that *must* wait till post-installation, and cannot use debconf for whatever reason. There shouldn't be that many of these, but it would probably be a good idea to introduce this soon as we move to non-interactive installs. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/