On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:48:59PM +1100, Vince wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:51:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Look again, debconf recommends apt-utils. It doesn't depend on it
> > because it works perfectly fine without it. Its messages to the effect
> > of:
> > debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
> Maybe something along the lines of:
> debconf: apt-utils isn't installed; okay, will do package configuration
> later
Alternatively, you could just not print anything at all, and have a debconf
note saying something like "Please install apt-utils if you want packages
to be configured before they're installed". After all, if it's not an error,
why bother telling anyone?
Along similar lines, you could report the problem once, then touch a
file like /var/lib/debconf/already_told_them_to_install_apt-inst and
never complain again.
Cheers,
aj
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