[Debian-hebrew-common] Why is myspell-he extra?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:34:25PM +0200, Baruch Even wrote:
> * Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> [061031 15:28]:
> > On 31/10/06, Baruch Even <baruch at debian.org> wrote:
> > >One thing to consider maybe is to stop depending on
> > >depend/recommend/suggest and provide a graphical program that the user
> > >can run in order to adjust his system between the different options and
> > >it can also say "you have openoffice installed, do you want Hebrew
> > >support for it?", we could have a nice clippy graphics for this feature
> > >:-)
> > 
> > Isn't it what debconf(7) is for?
> 
> No. debconf is for the configuration of a package, here we don't want to
> configure a package but rather configure the system externally to the
> packages that need to be configured.

Debconf is not only for specific packages. Take a look at the
base-config scripts (/usr/lib/base-config/menu) .

Debconf is for system-wide configuration. E.g: it could be preseeded to
automate installations.

-- Tzafrir