On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Cons: Untranslated message > Pros: less annoying by not interrupting installs and upgrades, easy to > implement
Cons: Can't be easily seen in non-console frontends, dissapears off of the screen rapidly, etc. Using echo to inform the user of things is really not ideal. README.Debian, NEWS.Debian, and low priority debconf notes when appropriate are much, much better. Don Armstrong -- I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system to be refuted by experience. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu