Re: Asking the priority question; was Re: Bug#221186: keymap problem fixed

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:24, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > The keyboard question must be asked, or at least user must be
> > told that his locale setting assumes some default values
> > (which are printed at that point), and he has to lower debconf
> > priority in order to change it.  But I really do not understand
> > why you insist on not displaying this question, which makes
> > installation much more painful, as already told by bugreports.
> 
> My point is that the real solution is to ask the priority question
> immediately after the language question. This way users know that there
> are questions that they are not being asked, and can go back (via
> goback, at any question stage) to main-menu and change priority, and ask
> those questions.
> 
> I would recommend asking the question, rather than just mentioning
> debconf priority on the opening text, because users have a habit of not
> noticing such things unless they are asked to make a choice. The default
> priority would still be "high".

Only ask if its not set on the command line. That way automatic
installations can not ask.

MfG
        Goswin