[gentoo-dev] configuration of packages

[Christian Loitsch]

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