Bug#274609: base-config: support random (vs. sequential) access to menu items

[Free Ekanayaka <free@agnula.org>]

|--==> Joey Hess writes:

  JH> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
  JH> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
  >>Joey Hess wrote:
  >>
  >>> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
  >>> > It would be nice to have a command line switch argument as:
  >>> > 
  >>> > base-config menu
  >>> > 
  >>> > to pop up the menu list first instead of the first menu item.
  >>> > 
  >>> > This is useful if you want to configure single parts.
  >>> 
  >>> DEBIAN_PRIORITY=medium base-config
  >>
  >>Uhm, such command line doesn't seem to work for me..
  >>
  >>Am I missing something?

  JH> It should work with the bash shell. Maybe you need to export
  JH> DEBIAN_PRIORITY=medium some other way with other shells.

Mmmh, that's strange. I do use bash, I've tried also with:

export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=medium
base-config

but no luck..

base-config 2.48

cheers,

free