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Re: Little things make the initial install experience painful



Scott Dier wrote:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> >template, you should just ship the default. (Note that the choice is
> 
> Or ask if you want this file to be managed by debconf, if not, install a 
> default config and have a mechanism much like conffiles to update it in 
> the future.

Each time debconf is made to ask if a file should be "managed by
debconf", a fairy dies.

There are better ways for the non-terminally-lazy. Read
debconf-devel(8).

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see shy jo


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