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Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts



* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [001024 15:23]:
> Policy explictly says you should NOT output things to "stave off boredom
> on the part of a user". Displaying stuff for tasks that may be slow on
> my 386 clearly falls under that.

Hmm; I myself like twizzle sticks (ala fsck) to let one know the machine
isn't spinning into oblivion...

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