Hi, Daniel Martin pointed out exactly what I wanted to say, but in better words. Thanks.
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > Having read the original post, I was under the impression that this would > be a desirable state, not necessarily an expression of the current state. On 23 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Daniel> So... Does diety attempt to integrate the configuration tools > Daniel> that do come with some of the Debian packages? And what about > Daniel> the question earlier of having the configuration menus that > Daniel> appear during initial setup available without booting from the > Daniel> install CD/floppy? > > Well, if there were a standard interface, Deity might try; > but, as it stands, most packages arrange to invoke the configuration > utility/script out of the postconfig script anyway; so the config > script is run by dpkg with no assistace from Deity. This is clear. It should also be able to do a basic setup without 'dialog' installed. But you know, it's not always running without problems after installing. When the postconfig went wrong, there should be a standard place/method to rerun the config, which should be as clear as installing. I did an install of debian on a laptop of a friend this week. He was not the person to struggle with the system, he just wanted X, octave, lyx/latex and a running pcmcia-network card. I can tell you, I got a red head configuring the basics. Once because of the work, and also because I felt somewhat ashamed to have to configure so many things with vi - for a basic installation. I know where to look, no problem. But it takes time anyway. We all had problems installing the basic system, isn't it? Trying to configure a kernel on a base system to access the cd-rom. To have X running. To be able to deliver mail locally AND outbound. To have colors in xterm, to have ls displaying in color and with slashes after a directory. To let xdm look better. I did not even know there was an xbase-configure (I did try xbaseconfig, which would be the standard name, or not?). > Remember, even when Deity is deployed, dpkg shall remain the > underlying mechanism; and it will alsways be legal to bypass Deity > and use raw dpkg to install packages. We can't, then, do things in a > fashion that the configs only work when the installation is run by > Deity. I would like to invoke dpkg --setup on a package to invoke the script, or let dselect do that. and maybe dpkg --display-setup to see what is done. > Any enhancements to configuring packages, thus, has to be > implemented by dpkg. Does this make sense? Yes it does. It is only a calling standard. A definition. It would be simple to follow it for package maintainers, and easy to implement in dselect/diety. Please don't take me too literal, I learned english too late to be able to express everything the right way. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch:3333 talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .