* [gentoo-dev] configuration of packages
@ 2002-03-26 17:56 Christian Loitsch
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From: Christian Loitsch @ 2002-03-26 17:56 UTC (permalink / raw
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I spent some time thinking on how to avoid asking a user questions
inside ebuild scripts.
My idea is to provide a directory (like /usr/share/doc) in which a
package can copy additional informations and config files.
Also _error-messages_, a file containing a list of created ._cfg*
files,... should go in there.
This could be useful for packages which need additional configuration,
but also provide more complicated config-files, shell-scripts to help
configuration... Most packages probably don't need to do this, but this
should be a decission of the maintainer.
christian
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