aj> You don't need an excuse to not mandate something, you need a damn aj> good reason to mandate, and a huge amount of current practice to aj> support it.
Is the reason given by OP not damn good enough? And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use debconf already not a huge enough amount? Just asking, -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
