RE: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts
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> The sorts of information which currently get displayed, but which don't
> get prompted for, are things like "Restarting internet superserver:
> inetd", or "Updating /etc/network/interfaces: succeeded".
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> To me, those sorts of outputs seem useful and helpful, so I think policy
> should probably explicitly allow for them, or at least not forbid them
> as it apparently does atm.
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during an install of more than say 3 packages, all that output gets washed
away. Especially for the many people who do updates from term windows in X.
The output of most packages boil down to debug messages.
I am not against letting the sysadmin know what is happening. Perhaps we just
need a better way to handle it.
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