On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:51:29AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think this seriously under values the many benifits of your proposal. The > concern I have with defaulting a new question to yes the first time it > appears > is that if someone has a standard preseed they are using this will change > what > they get installed and they will never see the question (If I understand how > all this works correctly and that's not certain).
You are in general correct. (There are some workarounds for that kind of thing, but they're nasty and not particularly robust.) > I would propose that the question should at least exist in an LTS release > with > a conservative default (no in this case) before defaulting to the less > conservative default. My thought would be to do all as you propose, except > leave it as default No for now and then consider swtiching to yes in 12.10. My counter-proposal would be to see how things work out with the openssh-server task at the top of tasksel's menu, as it now is in Natty. We haven't given that enough time (there hasn't even been a milestone containing it yet!) to see how it works out for server users. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
