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Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures



On 30 Sep 1998, Rob Browning wrote:

> Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes:
...
> everything in the background like menu does.  But what happens if the
> user then immediately decides that they forgot something and re-runs
> dpkg or dselect.  In this run, they could purge packages that the
> still-running background emacsen-common is working on, resulting in
> *serious* potential problems.

I see.  Yes, I was, in fact, thinking of the "menu" approach.  I would
very much like to see something like your proposed hook added.

Ben
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