On 2023-02-01 14:00, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
When I install a package with the -y flag, according to the man page should
give me a noninteractive mode. However, it still uses the Dialog frontend. See
the following output:
We should fix the manual page because -y does not work for all prompts,
luckily, but also debconf is not part of apt so like other hooks it
can prompt on its own.
Thanks for a quick answer, so -y only affects questions such as "The
following additional packages will be installed:" "Do you want to
continue?" ?
Perhaps the documentation could be worded:
-y, --yes, --assume-yes
Run non-interactively, assuming "yes" as answer to
unimportant questions. Abort
in undesirable situations, such as changing a held
package, trying to install an unauthenticated package or
removing an essential
package. Does not affect prompts generated by hooks such as
debconf.
Configuration Item: APT::Get::Assume-Yes.
