Re: Clarification: Eliminate nagging at installation time?
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:07:46AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Norbert Nemec wrote:
> > Ok, but the problem I see, is that you are forced to answer all the
> > questions right there in the middle of the installation. If you don't want
> > to (or can't) decide right there, there is oten no possibility to put it up
> > for later. If you make a mistake, it is often not that easy to find out how
> > to do that again. And what is most: Right now if you are installing a huge
> > pile of packages, it looks like: Wait 50 secs * Answer one question * wait 1
> > minute * Hit Return to confirm reading a warning and so on.
>
> The configuration management proposal addresses this. All questioning is
> done _before_ packages are installed. (We may even manage to detach the
> questions so they can be downloaded first and then you could answer
> questions while downloading the rest of the package!)
>
> I suggest you read the proposal. http://www.debian.org/~wakkerma/config6/
Yea, thanks, that's exaxtly the location I glanced over. Should hve taken
more time for that.
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