Re: gnu packaging ideas

[Luis Araujo]

pancake wrote:
>> Yes, please, let's _try_ to avoid the pre/post install/deinstall scripts
>> at all cost. They tend to create too many inconsistencies and weird
>> behaviours.
> 
> There's some kind of pre-post installation scripts that maybe useful imho,
> but maybe good to provide at least an "instructions" for the packages that
> need some kind of special user (www, spamassassin, tor, ...), 
> 
> 

what do you mean with "instructions"?

>> Who is woking on this SEXP package manager thing?
> 
> We are :), So..any new idea? I think we must start showing some initial
> designs for the package destriptor.
> 

We? :-)