Agreed that this seems technically sound, but it would be really nice to have this Real Soon Now. I think it might be reasonably possible to backport this from Woody into Potato fairly soon after the release of Potato. The fact is that an automatic installation system will be really hard to test on the unstable tree. I am not proposing that something like this should really be called stable, but if it could be made compatible with the stable distribution (then Potato) that would be very helpful.
-- Mike On 2000-05-18 at 19:32 -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > The fact is, we won't be natively supporting bulk installation until > Woody. And even that is in question. As I understand it, the > proposed Woody install system is debconf based; moreover, debconf can > have different backends for receiving configuration info, for > instance, an LDAP backend, or a backend that munges an XML file from a > web server.