Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts
Seth Arnold wrote:
> * 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...
When someone needs to run fsck from their postinst, we'll talk.
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see shy jo
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