On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:32:39 +0900
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 November 2003 00:09, Markus Nigbur wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:18:09 -0500 (EST)
> >
> > "donnie berkholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I had imagined renaming anything that was *-update to config-*
> > > also for consistency.
> >
> > Ehrm, IMHO *-update should be scripts that don't need any user
> > interaction, like env-update or opengl-update (and yes, etc-update
> > is an exception; even so it should really be called etc-config. ;)
> 
> Umm, in a sense opengl-update does need interaction - even if it's
> only passing command line parameters to the proggy.

That's what i mean. User interaction is more than just specifiying some
commandline options. Those could also be specified by a default file,
a script calling the *-update script or simply default values.
User interaction starts when the user actively has to do some stuff when
running the script (as with etc-update).

-- Markus

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Markus Nigbur
Gentoo Developer
http://www.gentoo.org

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