On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:12:05PM -0400, Eric V. Smith wrote: > I'd like to propose that if this feature is added, it be implemented as > "run all scripts in some directory", rather than "run the scripts > specified in some config file". This allows me to add scripts just by > dropping files in, rather than having to modify some file that may or may > not have other scripts specified in it. > > Sort of like /etc/profile.d versus modifying /etc/profile itself. Maybe, but the scripts should probably be related to package names (wildards allowed), so then you would need a directory for every package name that you want to do special actions for. And then the question of execution order is there again. Maybe I still prefer an (ordered) list of scripts in a config file. > I don't have any opinion on whether it be scripts or Python modules. > Python is fine with me and we could have a richer interface, but I can see > where people might want to have just normal scripts. Maybe doing it in > Python but also supplying a Python module that would execute scripts might > be best? For example. If you look at apt-rpm, the allow LUA scripts, letting you have access to some internal arrays etc. With Python this is presumably pretty simple to do. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
