On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:23:53AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to > interact with the user does not mean that every possible choice that > a package makes needs to ask the user. If I wanted to make all the > choices, I'll build from source :-). Either put in the symlink, or > don't, but don't bug me about it. > > If you want to put in the symlink, but allow the admin to remove it > permanently, do this: > > 1. If a new install, don't add symlink (no installed base). > > 2. If upgrading from a version that had /usr/lib/procmail-lib, put in > symlink. > > 3. If upgrading from a (newer) version that did not have > /usr/lib/procmail-lib, > don't do anything (neither add nor remove symlink). > > This is easy by looking at the arguments to the postinst and using 'dpkg > --compare-versions'. > > One of the reasons for debconf was to allow for non-interactive > installs, but we seem to be going in the wrong direction sometimes.
This is kind of what I was thinking about; thanks. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_
