Re: verbose & quiet
#include <hallo.h>
Philip Blundell wrote on Sun Mar 17, 2002 um 10:34:58AM:
> > For LiveCD, ask for the install media (should be livecd)
> > Always ask which mountpoint to mount volumes to
> > Warn that earlier kernels do not support newer filesystems
> > Warn that pre-2.4.1 kernels do not support ReiserFS 3.6
>
> I don't think there is much point having "verbose" turn on extra stuff
> that is purely informational, like the latter two items. It would be
Not warnings, these items are decissions. Though, IMHO >> 95 of users
would choose the default values, so I put them behind the verbose mode.
> > Suppress confirm before writing the aboot bootloader
> > Suppress confirm before overwriting master boot record
> > Suppress 'Important Information about installed MBR'
> > Don't ask for confirm if only one archive path was found
>
> That last one sounds like something that should be suppressed by default
> and only enabled with "verbose".
The "Important Information..." is important, since this small MBR
program is not usual, even for users from other distributions. But the
path confirmation is really useless.
Index: choose_medium.c
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RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c,v
retrieving revision 1.148
diff -u -r1.148 choose_medium.c
--- choose_medium.c 2002/03/15 17:30:54 1.148
+++ choose_medium.c 2002/03/17 14:05:56
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@
}
snprintf(prtbuf, sizeof(prtbuf),
_("Please select the directory that you will use to install %s from."), descr);
- if ( dirc == 1 && bootargs.isquiet )
+ if ( dirc == 1 && !bootargs.isverbose )
status = 0; /* quiet: use the only match automatically */
else
status = menuBox(prtbuf, _("Select Archive path"), nchoices,
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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