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Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?



On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Cons: Untranslated message
> Pros: less annoying by not interrupting installs and upgrades, easy to
>       implement

Cons: Can't be easily seen in non-console frontends, dissapears off of
the screen rapidly, etc.

Using echo to inform the user of things is really not ideal.
README.Debian, NEWS.Debian, and low priority debconf notes when
appropriate are much, much better.


Don Armstrong

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