Hi all, I created a custom extfs which allows easy browsing of reports created by a program I maintain, called "cruft" (http://bugs.debian.org/407475 for the curious). It does not make much sense to include the extfs script in the mc package, as maintaining it and releasing updates together with "cruft" will be much easier and more efficient. The only thing needed to make this "cruft-fs" work is an entry in the extfs.ini file. However that file is owned by the mc package, which means that I cannot add/delete lines to/from it on cruft package installation/removal. I thought of some KISS-style solution, such as having: 1) a extfs.ini.d/ directory into which package such as cruft could drop extfs.ini snippets, and 2) a simple update-mc-extfs script, to be called in package postinst scripts, which would just cat the snippets together into extfs.ini. As such, it would be a simple packaging issue and would not need any mc code modification. Another way is to have mc perform available extfs discovery on runtime. This would of course require code changes. The debian mc package maintainers asked me to send a feature request here. Before I submit a patch, I'd like to ask which implementation you'd like more? regards, -- Marcin Owsiany <porridge debian org> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216
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