On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:45:05PM +0100, Martin Albert wrote: > I've send to the wrong adress, here it is to the list again: > > Thanks Matt Zimmermann for your kind and reassuring answers. > > For a summary see his answers. I couldn't express better. > > I'm planning to use debconf as soon as it has settled somewhat. > > Open are the questions: > - How to find out that debconf is installed and usable? > - Is it ok to put low priority messages to stdout without a prompt? > If you use debconf, depend on it (eg Depends: debconf)
You don't control what gets printed per se, you just assign priorities to your messages and the sysadmin sets the priority according to what he/she wants to see. Generally, if you give it low priority, a lot of people will never see it, because they choose not to. Gordon Sadler
