Subject: Re: RFC: generating menus from packages
To: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/04/2002 14:24:18
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:21:27AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > (I previously discussed this back in January 2001.)
> >
> > It would be very useful if the packages collection would support
> > generating useful menus for window managers.
> >
> > For example, if a user installs audio/xmmix, then it would be nice if a
> > menu automatically (or semi-automatically) received that entry.
>
> This should NEVER be the default while installing a package.
>
> And i will leave it up to someone else to add support for packages
> where I'm the maintainer of, because I don't want to let an
> script change my custom config file.

	It should automatically update the default config file - or a
	file that the default config file automatically includes. I don't
	believe anyone suggested anything else.

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