IL Ka wrote: > You are probably looking for unattended installation and > configuration using "noninteractive" dbconf frontend. > https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/debconf-doc/debconf.7.en.html#Unattended_Package_Installation
Noninteractive is the word! Thank you. But obviously people can call it declarative if the like to, maybe a fancy word like that is what it takes to promote it. Now why every that would be needed, since it's such a basic idea (the config file) and it's present for everything else already ... but evidently. Anyway how does that work in practice? Maybe it is even described in the man page you refer to ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal