Re: Task-help & Wizards

[The Gecko <gecko@benham.net>]

On 27-May-98 Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> So you guys are going to have to target a distribution (preferably
> one that actually exists) sooner or later if
> you want to get anything done. You can't go anywhere without some basic
> assumptions about the configuration of the target system.  
The idea will be targetting a CORE compliant distribution, that way we'd be
targetting multiple distributions, not just one.

> It's a bad idea. Why ? For a start, RPM can't interactively place files. 
> So your packages aren't going to be in RPM format. 
I wasn't thinking about file placement (that's pretty much controlled by
the FSS).  There are still other options (to some programs) that shouldn't be
forced on a user.. such as color syntax (on or off?) vim... or number of beads
in xabacus.

> You need to come up with something that is going to work with the existing
> packaging mechanisms. RPM and wizards are _highly incompatible ... 
There can't be an extention added to RPM that runs a wizard asking for
configuration options and then modifies the necessary configuration files?

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