Re: Interactive installation [was Re: Caldera installation...]

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

"J.H.M. Dassen" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

[...about labeling for interactive/non-interactive...]
   It might make more sense to have labelling for individual scripts, rather
   than packages as a whole (e.g. some packages don't require interaction on
   installation, but do on removal).

I believe that all installation scripts are indeed that, right?  i.e.,
we don't have binaries for {pre,post}{inst,rm}, they're always sh or
perl, scripts.

In that case, we could label them with stylized comments at the
beginning or the end:

#! /bin/sh
#-# Interactive: no
[...]

Just trying to suggest a possible mechanism.  The #-# parsable comment
indicator characters could of course be replaced with whatever was
chosen as appropriate.
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