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Bug#254994: installation-reports: expert26 is TO MUCH, linux26 is not enough



On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:56:57PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:12:54AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:46:56AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org):
> > > > I maintain that "expert" should map to DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium, and that
> > > > it should be DEBCONF_PRIORITY=*low* that requires people to type the
> > > > incantation by hand.  Most people who are considering themselves expert
> > > > for these purposes are going to want medium rather than low, I think.
> > > 
> > > I second this. But, well, are we constrained in some way on the number
> > > of "shortcuts"?
> > 
> > Look at the insanity on a powerpc CD some time. Increasing that by a
> > further 50% will make it utterly impossible to see what on earth's going
> > on when you hit Tab at the yaboot prompt.
> > 
> > (I've been pondering removing the -safe targets and just telling people
> > to pass the video=ofonly parameter instead.)

> F7 screen has enough space left for this. (isolinux/f7.txt)

Well, powerpc doesn't use isolinux... :)

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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