On 7/9/05, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I've been wondering the same about questions on updates. Why are (many) questions being asked on updates (first update after system install)? Sounds like a weird time to me.