On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:00:16AM +0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Ter, 2005-07-05 às 21:32 +1000, Hamish Moffatt escreveu: > > > Keeping the question priority at 'low' make sure most users will not > > > see the question, and that only reconfigure will present it. I hope > > > you are not setting the debconf priority limit to low. :) > > > > If we recommend against setting the priority to low, why bother with it? > > Enabling debconf pre-seeding for customized installs is a good enough > justification IMO.
That sounds like a good use for hidden questions. But I think we ask way too many questions on the whole. In the last two days I helped a friend with a sarge install who is new to linux. We installed the base system with the desktop task. Does the new Debian user really care if their fonts are managed with defoma, a technology they have never heard of? (And when did defomized become a verb?) There should be a sensible default. Why shouldn't fonts always be managed with defoma? Is it important at system install time to ask whether cdrecord should be installed SUID or not? There should be a sensible default there too. The post-reboot (debootstrap) stage asks way too many questions. This is a pity because the pre-reboot (d-i) stage is excellent. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
