Frans Pop wrote: > Gut reaction: command line params should be limited to 1st stage, all else > is confusing. > Exception: debconf/priority, which is indirect anyway. > > IMO there's a real difference between using a preseed file and passing > command line options. I think this difference is lessened if the entire system install happens in the first stage, and you reboot directly into the debian desktop (or whatever). This is a direction I hope to go now with base-config.. However, you're probably right. > > I have a kind of solution to the problem of these variables being > > sometimes annoyingly long: globbing. */framebuffer=false, > > */locale=en_US, */keymap=us. Does this make sense, or look too ugly to > > expect users to type it? Using the glob preserves the current indicator > > of a debconf environment variable (the /), and also indicates rather > > well that this setting may apply to more than one thing. I can think of > > two ways to implement it, the better way would be a cdebconf db that is > > put in the stack and looks up values from globs. > > Another option would be to define specific synonyms, like d-i for > debian-installer (probably the only one really needed). netcfg, hw-detect, localechooser, and network-console come to mind. -- see shy jo
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