Hello, On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:25:14PM +0100, Bernardo Arlandis Mañó wrote: > Hi Sylvian, > I totally agree with Jens, and I'd like to add something. > > Instead of removing questions I'd remove every question and start again > from scratch wondering what's so really important to bother the user > during installation. I think that only critical (no sane default > possible) and important security related questions should be asked at > installation, that seems to be the norm. > > Just take a moment to imagine a standard debian installation if every > developer had your criteria about debconf, scared? > > I'd asked myself "how many users I'm gonna bitch just to make happy one > user?" to know what I should ask for. I think using priorities isn't > right because even advanced users don't want too much innecessary > questions. They'll go read the docs section and configure it their way > ignoring all the debconf stuff. > > If possible, ask no questions, that should be your goal and try it. If > someone wants to have a weird configuration, he/she can make changes > later. Also, a lot of settings are available thru mldonkey itself, don't > ask for these!! > > If I've said something terrible wrong, please forgive me, I'm just > trying to help from what I know. ;) > > Otherwise, glad to see you're making some important progress lately. > Keep going! >
I also agree with Jens (as i think i have stated in some previous mail, but i am not sure). In fact, another DD propose me to remove the debconf and use a script to do the configuration... I was OK but he doesn't do it... So, if you feel "it is very important", i'll be welcomed to integrate any script/new debconf to lower the number of question... For now, i am pretty busy with some ocaml transition, so i don't really have time to do this. I think that i will take some time to remove almost every question (i will just keep the question about the admin password, which i think is mandatory). FYI, it is really hard to choose between "a lot of question" and "no question" with user saying "i want this, i want that, i want everything, i want nothing". Kind regard Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
