Excerpts from Enrico Zini's message of Son Aug 08 05:16:04 -0400 2010: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:04:14PM -0400, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Currently the debconf question about enabling nodm is only shown at > > medium priority. This means that it will not be shown by default. > > > > Thibaut Girka, my GSoC student, is currently preparing a smartphone task > > which will include nodm. On smartphones the users most probably want to > > enable nodm. Therefore this question should be shown on default priority > > installs. > > > > I think the question should not only have priority high for smartphones > > but for all installations. I already think it's kind of strange to not > > enable a package by default, although I understand the reasons for doing > > it the way it currently is. But if a user installs nodm in most cases he > > also > > wants to run it. Therefore he should at least be given to open to enable > > it at install time. > > Right. Thanks for opening this, the issue is indeed up for discussion. > The original idea was that nodm would be turned on via debconf > preseeding. Ideally a foo task should be able to preseed custom debconf > defaults for packages, at least at installer time.
AFAIK there is currently no easy facility available to do task specific preseeding in tasksel. At least I did not find any information or and example on how to do it. Preseeding is possible in the preseeding file that is used by d-i to configure network the network. But adding task specific information there seems wrong to me. A user might well choose to not install the smartphone task and if in a later stage we get the graphical installer working on the freerunner, no preseeding is necessary anymore. > I also want to avoid nodm's questions to appear in preconfigured > installation tasks; that is, I'd like to avoid that when the debian > freerunner installer runs it gets stopped by nodm asking the debconf > question at a higher priority. That's a valid concern. The only option to do this without preseeding is to have the question defaulting to yes (at least on the freerunner). > I guess most custom installers that make use of preseeding are going to > run at priority critical so are not affected by questions at priority > high, so that is a non-issue. And it's probably fair that if someone > installs nodm by hand gets asked the tricky question of whether to run > it. > > With this in mind, I am fine going both ways: I am mostly writing this > to make sure you know of the background thoughts so far. If you tell me > it does indeed make sense to have it at high, I'll prepare a new upload > asap. If there is a facility to do task specific preseeding I'm fine with the current state. If not I'd prefer the question to be of priority "high" and with a default of yes for now. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
