If this frontend does not display anything to the user, why should these templates be translated?
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Colin Watson wrote:
How does this differ from the 'none' frontend? (Serious question, I'm not sure.)
This noninteractive frontend does display things to the user -- it's very similar to a normal frontend=text install, but never asks the user for input. If a value has been preseeded, it won't ask a question about it. However, for questions without preseeded answers and a priority >= the current value, it displays the question using the same format as frontend=text but will answer it using the default value (or if there is no default, chooses something "reasonable" like the first entry on the list).
To answer the question about translations, to be honest, I wasn't thinking of how much work would be involved in translating them. The templates are similar to frontend=text but reflect the noninteractive nature of the install. For example, instead of "Prompt: Question default='%s'> " it has "Using default '%s'". I certainly wouldn't mind if they were simplified to make translation easier.
As for the 'none' frontend, I didn't know it existed. There's no module for it and I didn't see it in the docs -- could easily be my mistake though. I can't test it right now to see how it works, but I'll assume that it doesn't ask questions and doesn't show you the answers it uses from my glance through the code.
Here are some reasons why you might prefer this version: - It's noninteractive, not completely silent, so you can see what it's doing. - If an install goes bad, you can check the log to see what questions were asked and what answers were given. - If you set up preseed values for all the questions at some point in time, then it's quite clear when new questions are added in the future because they'll appear in the log along with the default value that was used. If you don't like it, you can update your preseed config. - It comes in a module like all of the others and so might be easier to update as new noninteractive feature requests come in.
Hope that helps, Alex
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