Anthony Towns wrote: > The first paragraph of that section states: > > ``The package installation scripts should avoid producing output > which it (sic) is unnecessary for the user to see and should rely > on `dpkg' to stave off boredom on the part of a user installing > many packages. [...]'' > > The fourth paragraph continues: > > ``If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to > the user [...] it should display this in the `postinst' script and > prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the message.''
> Hmmm. I'm not actually sure this conclusion makes sense now. Joey, am > I mis-stating something? (It seems to me there's a difference between > "necessary" output, which can be displayed, and "vitally important" > output, which must pause the installation) Well I'd never really read those two paragraphs side by side I must confess. I suppose it can be read that way. Since old policy doesn't have rationalles and that has been in it forever, it's hard to say if this is intentonal or just a poor choice of words. > The sorts of information which currently get displayed, but which don't > get prompted for, are things like "Restarting internet superserver: > inetd", or "Updating /etc/network/interfaces: succeeded". Or <40 lines of garbage ralating to byte-compiling obscure emacs modules>. > To me, those sorts of outputs seem useful and helpful Some of them, a lot are massively useless debug output. -- see shy jo
