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Tony Godshall

2004-07-17, 5:53 pm

> > > From: Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>

David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> wrote and Zenaan Harkness forwarded[vbcol=seagreen]
> I originally wrote configure-debian for this purpose. Unfortunately, lack of
> time and interest from others has prevented it from becoming anything more than
> a simple frontend to dpkg-reconfigure. In addition, the current codebase has
> issues with the Gnome debconf frontend, so I'm planning a rewrite based on the
> recent tasksel rewrite. The main issue is the vast amount of specific
> configuration scripts that need to be written for each app, and that is
> something I just don't have the time to achieve on my own. If anyone is
> interested in working together to carry this out though, I'd be happy to help.


debconf-gnome appears to have suffered a similar fate. But
perhaps it is something to build on.

-- Tony Godshall


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