possible debconf project use in HURD

[Jim Franklin]

Hi folks
  Thought I'd pass this along.  Looks like the HURD is thinking of using
Joey H's debconf.

Jim


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             Re: update-translator script for review
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> Personally, I hate having it ask the user (I won't tell you how many times
> now I have left dpkg running overnight and come back in the morning to see
> it waiting at some prompt with 99% of the work still left to do).  I wish
> all packagers would refuse to clobber unknown files of any kind, but that
> is a policy issue.

Joey Hess implemented a configuration proposal by Wichert Ackermann
which
allows to defer all questions to post installation as well as getting
the
info from a (network-shared if you want) database. This will make
unattended
installs possible, as well as sharing configurations over a farm. The
tool
has several frontends, too (term, slang, gtk ...). We only have to make
all
packages use this tool now.

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