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Re: dpkg and DEBIAN_FRONTEND



Stephen R Marenka <stephen@marenka.net> writes:

> Wouldn't it be valuable for dpkg to check for DEBIAN_FRONTEND and if
> it's Noninteractive then take defaults instead of prompting? It seems that
> many install scripts aren't built for noninteractivity. I would suspect
> if you ever wanted to build multiple machines from the same base (ala
> kickstart), this would be all but a requirement.

Personally I think all packages in base, at least, should require use
of debconf for any interactive bits.

This is a battle that should be taken up on debian-policy.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>



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