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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14+b1
Severity: wishlist
When updating a lot of packages or when doing a dist-upgrade, a user may
not sit in front of the screen for the hole time.
When configuring packages, apt should ask for all information needed for
package configuration prior to the actual configuration right at the
beginning of the configuration process and postpone all informative
messages to the very end of the configuration process.
So questions like "which locale should i set for keyboard?" or "shall
libc6 restart following services..." together at
the beginning and all messages like "you have to restart gdm for changes
to take effect" at the very end.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.10-1lenny1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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Quoting Daniel Gasser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.14+b1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> When updating a lot of packages or when doing a dist-upgrade, a user may
> not sit in front of the screen for the hole time.
> When configuring packages, apt should ask for all information needed for
> package configuration prior to the actual configuration right at the
> beginning of the configuration process and postpone all informative
> messages to the very end of the configuration process.
> So questions like "which locale should i set for keyboard?" or "shall
> libc6 restart following services..." together at
> the beginning and all messages like "you have to restart gdm for changes
> to take effect" at the very end.
This has IMHO nothing to do with apt.
*If packages use debconf properly*, they should use the "high"
priority for important-enough user prompting.....and only do prompting
in their *config* script.
If this is respected:
- very few prompting should occur in the configure step
- this should happen fairly early in the installation process
"grouping" questions is a non-sense. The debconf promprint is part of
the logic of each package configuration scripts. For instance, most
often, the debconf questions get their default values from the
package's configuration files, through code that has been inserted by
the package maintainer in the package config script.
For all these reasons, I think this request is mostly useless and
impossible.
If some packages prompt at wrong places (for instance in their
postinst script) at with inappropriate priority (for instance, an
informational note displayed at critical priority), please file bugs
against these packages. Do not blame apt...:)
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