Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On a separate but related topic, I think a much better approach would > be to handle configuration as a step entirely separate from the > install phase. Let the install be entirely quiet, and let packages > have intelligent defaults. If the package absolutely must be > configured before it can be used, then let it be non-functional until > someone actually calls dpkg-configure (which would be just like > dpkg-reconfigure except that's the only time the questions would be > asked).
Debconf is flexable enough so you can do that already (assuming all
packages use debconf).
- comment out the dpkg-preconfigure call in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
- set in /etc/debconf.conf:
Frontend: noninteractive
Admin-Email:
- dpkg-configure is the following script:
#!/bin/sh -e
dpkg-reconfigure --unseen-only --default-priority -freadline $@
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