policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Installation (apart from configuration) should become absolutly non-interactive. Stopping the unpacking of setting up of packages just because of one package needing the users interaction is anyoing. At the moment Policy encourages the package to display important information and request the user

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second thing is that such information should be collected during install and be displayed in one chunk afterwards (in a series of debconf requesters?). Actually, debconf allows such things to be shown _before_ install. The third thing isn't relevant to the

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second thing is that such information should be collected during install and be displayed in one chunk afterwards (in a series of debconf requesters?). Actually, debconf allows such things to be shown _before_ install.

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have a number of serious technical objections to this. goswin == goswin brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: goswin Installation (apart from configuration) should become goswin absolutly non-interactive. Stopping the unpacking of setting goswin up of packages just because of one

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you give me an idea that is probably hard to do but would be great. What if debconf had a postpone button. It does. See the mail this to me button on the slang frontend. -- see shy jo

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you give me an idea that is probably hard to do but would be great. What if debconf had a postpone button. It does. See the mail this to me button on the slang frontend. Loks like I need to install a fresh system. The