On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:01, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:52:43PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Ok, here's the way I see things happening. We use discover and friends > > to populate the debconf database, like you do now in the xserver-xfree86 > > .config script. We only ask the user to confirm at a priority of > > "low". The default for the confirm question is "yes". > > Medium. Things can be autodetected wrongly. "Low" is for things that > can't really be "wrong", just annoying to nitpicky people.
Ok, fair enough. > PGI already does something similar to what you describe. I see; how hard would it be to integrate into the main Debian package? I guess my main point here is that it's a solvable problem; I don't think this approach goes against the spirit of Debconf at all. > We long ago solved the looping display manager problem, so it's just as > well to let the display managers fail. They won't tie up the system for > long and they let the display managers start again on a good > configuration even if something is stupid and leaves the > /etc/X11/x-server-unconfigured file around. Ok, right. Yeah, that works well. Cool. We're getting there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]