Am Samstag, den 24.01.2009, 00:52 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae:
Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] wrote:
Hello, what about an approach that keeps all settings of a specific hook inside the hook script itself? This would just work after deployment of a hook script in /etc/pacman.d/hooks.d without any configuration file hassle. The Hooks would be self contained in files that pacman could source before doing anything. And if someone wants to know what a hook do and when it will be used there is only one place to look.
Marc
The one problem I see with that is that the actual script needs to be run. The post_install scripts etc, just source and run the script in a shell. This becomes more difficult if we have to keep information what files trigger the hooks to be run and when.
Allan
The point was that this way you can install new hooks with packages and they would just work without any configuration file fiddling. It would be cleaner for a packager in my opinion. Marc