On 03/09/2017 07:52 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> So setting $PAGER to more, cat or nothing in the shell should fix it. > I suspect it would make sense for rescue-mode to do so, but I'm not > familiar with its inner working… Would it make sense to set PAGER=more for all of d-i? Within busybox there's one applet that actually looks at PAGER, which is man. Of course we don't compile that in. But the hardcoded fallback again is more, so util-linux's behavior is a little surprising. Given that we do not actually have less in that environment, but do have more, shouldn't we be able to give binaries a sensible guidance (in the best case it being a no-op because more's the default anyhow)? (I suppose I also have to say that there were many times I missed less and needed to abuse an editor instead - which isn't necessarily equivalent in terms of wrapping on the terminal. We could also ponder adding CONFIG_LESS=y in some minimal build flavor.) Kind regards Philipp Kern
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