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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Stupid use of debconf award
From:       Josef Spillner <josef () ggzgamingzone ! org>
Date:       2003-04-14 14:16:21
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On Monday 14 April 2003 14:13, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Please, kick out all those questions. They have nothing to do here and
> should be replaced by either configuration files or autodetection. There
> have been 4 bug reports for more than 6 months asking for this and you
> haven't even replied to any of them.

With the new debian installer, it is possible (*) to let this depend on a 
value set previously, based on questions similar to the current debconf 
priorities, but more fine-grained.

(*) is possible means, it might not be implemented yet but the installer 
project is ongoing work, and if newbies might be irritated by SNMP questions 
it needs to be fixed there and not in the packages targeting advanced users.

Josef

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