Anthony Towns wrote: > If debconf isn't good enough that everyone's not using it voluntarily > (lilo has been converted *from* debconf), then the obvious thing to do > is to improve debconf, not try to force everyone to make their packages > worse.
IIRC, the problem with lilo and debconf had little to do with debconf per se and was mainly that the new lilo configurator was very ambitious and broke a lot of systems. > Joey has yet more significant debconf changes waiting in the wings for > after woody's release iirc, too. Only better integration with dpkg and maybe a sql database driver some day. And perhaps sometime making it communicate with scripts via something other than stdio. -- see shy jo
