Sean Middleditch wrote:
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 00:18 +0100, Paul Trippett wrote:
>Why not take a BSD approach and give them the option when installing the
>package, say for example...
>
># rpm -i vsftp....rpm
>Would you like to enable Anonymous logins? (y/n) [N]
>Would you like to enable Local user Logins? (y/n) [N]
Because RPMs are absolutely never ever supposed to ask questions.
- What if the RPM is being installed non-interactively?
- What if the RPM is being installed with a GUI tool?
- What if the user doesn't understand English?
And then you get into the general usability problems - are the question
phrased properly? Is "Y/N" an appropriate prompt? etc.
Each rpm could then drop a scriptlet into a directory that gui would
then be able to run to set things up for it.
/etc/system-setup/
vsftpd.py
httpd.py
samba.py
kill_my_harddrive.py
And then the system-setup program would display the questions, get the
answers... and possibly be able to bring the system into at least a
bare-bones configuration.
Reset to original configuration [Yes] [No] [Help]
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