| Andreas Tille 2004-10-08, 2:48 am |
| On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The only problem is that I'm damn unable to find a 25th hour in the
> day for working on this.
Once I've read a childresn book where a damn bad guy had stolen the
Wednesday. The good boy in this book reconstructed the day the following
way:
- the "hours" in a scool are only 45minutes so take the remaining
15 minutes
- take the waiting hours when the bus is late
- take the minutes when you are in fear - these minutes are
longer than normal ones - so make them equal to normal ones
and you have some additional time
--> add these times and you get an extra day. ;-)
> Several other parts could also benefit from this...which would need
> creating a few debconf-whatever packages...
I really like this idea. Most Zope products are using shared debconf
questions and Custom Debian Distributions uses this trick as well.
> The current way of handling common templates by the use of shared/* is
> not optimal ATM, as all packages using shared/* templates must define
> them. They must have the same text...but nothing enforces this...and
> there is no mechanism for reusing the translations which are
> replicated many times.
I doubt I understand what you mean. At least in the packages I mentioned
above the template is not mentioned in the packages. They just use
the variable in {post,pre}{inst,rm} scripts.
> So, all this is just a matter of creating a first preliminary very
> small package targeted at database stuff. Just start with one question
> and, in the same time, work with a package which could make use of it.
This would be really great.
> This could be used as a live demo and then be generalized among other
> packages using and creating a database during their configuration.
Having a working example is the first step for a good solution.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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