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Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password



On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:05:32PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> > I am a big fan of not using debconf/postinst for any of this.

So am I.  Definitely not postinst: that should be without interruption.  The
install process of Debian asks questions directly after downloading them.
After the questions have been answered, the install should work without
interruption.  Except for conffile problems, which still annoy me. ;-)

> I'm still confused about debconf's 'note', mainly because
> debconf-devel(7) clearly says that debconf will do everything to display
> that message to the user, but I'm not able to obtain this behaviour.

Not "everything".  It said it would go through great pains.  However, if a
user set the frontend to "noninteractive", then nothing is going to wait for a
key press (and if something is, then that's a very serious bug, as it makes
unattended installs impossible).  In such a case, the user probably knows what
they're doing, and you shouldn't force your message on them.  I have no idea
when the mentioned e-mailing would take place.

Thanks,
Bas

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