Re: Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I'd agree with the good thing part but not with adding a RC-bug to
> every package not using debconf. At least I think that it should be ok
> if the package respects DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive. I am no DD,
> though.
It is, for the purposes of unattended installs, enough. I *do* hate to be
prompted for information at package install, though, and I hate even more
when it is done by non-debconf methods that I cannot toss at a "don't ask me
again and use this default" database common to all my machines.
So, IMHO, packages should not be prompting the user _ever_ at maintainer
scripts, unless it is done through debconf.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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