[Tore Anderson] > God, No! There's far too many Debconf questions being asked by > various Debian packages already, IMNSHO.
There is no reason for you to get religious over this question. The nice thing about debconf is that there is no _need_ to present all options as questions. One can like ntp fetch the value from debconf without asking the question first. This will make it possible to control the details of the package configuration without needing to ask a lot of questions to the user while installing it.