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"fset seen" suggestion



OK, here's a slightly different proposal for how to handle "fset seen" stuff
(there is code in d-i ATM that just does "fset seen false" on a question
before asking it, which is very very bad in an automated install...):

If "seen=true", then simply lower the priority one notch before deciding to
ask the question. (critical -> high, high -> medium, medium -> low, low stays
at low.) That way, the user won't be bothered with asking a question twice,
_unless_ something goes wrong, in which case the debconf priority will be
lowered and the question will be asked anyway. (If the question is critical
and the user has his/her priority at high, it will still be asked, but I
think that's OK.) If nothing goes wrong, it seems rather unlikely that the
same question will be asked twice anyhow, so I don't see that it should blow
up in that case :-)

Does this make sense to anybody but me? :-)

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