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Re: Selection-time configuration, delayed configuration, &c

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> If we are to do selection-time configuration then the database of
> questions to be asked needs to be loaded before the packages are
> actually unpacked.  This database will be quite large (some packages
> could be expected to have tens of K of config questions, help text,
> &c).  Even our Packages file is now 600K uncompressed.
> 
> I don't see how this data can easily be made available to the
> configuration program.

Why not just have two passes over the package files.  The first grabs
the config info, and asks the questions, and the second handles the
normal unpacking and installing.  Someone else suggested this
recently, and I thought it was a good idea.

> Note that nothing I've said argues against database-based
> configurations schemes, which are a Good Thing.

It might be nice to have something a little smarter than your average
database.  It would be interesting to have the ability for a package
to register scripts associated with configuration variables so that if
someone says:

  debian-configure --set global.papersize letter

Then all the scripts that have registered themselves to be triggered
by any change to that variable get run.

Bad idea?
-- 
Rob


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