Am Samstag, den 24.01.2009, 00:52 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae: > Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] wrote: > > Hello, > > what about an approach that keeps all settings of a specific hook inside > > the hook script itself? This would just work after deployment of a hook > > script in /etc/pacman.d/hooks.d without any configuration file hassle. > > The Hooks would be self contained in files that pacman could source > > before doing anything. And if someone wants to know what a hook do and > > when it will be used there is only one place to look. > > > > Marc > > > The one problem I see with that is that the actual script needs to be > run. The post_install scripts etc, just source and run the script in a > shell. This becomes more difficult if we have to keep information what > files trigger the hooks to be run and when. > > Allan
The point was that this way you can install new hooks with packages and they would just work without any configuration file fiddling. It would be cleaner for a packager in my opinion. Marc _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
