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Too many installation questions (was Re: Happy Birthday)



On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 07:42:39AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:54:04PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote:
> >           3) Debian will contain a installation procedure that doesn't need to
> >                   be babysat; simply install the basedisk, copy the distribution
> >                   disks to the harddrive, answer some question about what
> >                   packages you want or don't want installed, and let the machine
> >                   install the release while you do more interesting things.
> 
> Oh, I wish... do you want to add a handler for application/* today?
> 
> Even on medium debconf priority, there are way too many packages with
> completely useless debconf notices while I install 3.0. (As well as
> dictionaries-common, which asks me whether I care for British english
> or American english... wrong time to ask!)

You have the power, use the BTS.  File bug reports on the offending
packages.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots
of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar



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