Re: slink problems
On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 16 h 29, the keyboard of Russell Nelson
<nelson@crynwr.com> wrote:
> Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact
> various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install.
It's the Mother of All FAQs and has been discussed (but not solved) an
incredible number of times.
> If it's an absolute requirement for configuration scripts to be able
> to ask questions, then perhaps there could be two categories, ones
> which never ask questions and all the others. Run the non-interactive
Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy.
You have to find:
- a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty),
- implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages' {pre,post}{rm,inst}.
Discussion on this problem takes place on the debian-admintool list. See its archives <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/>.
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