In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >Finally, it installs all the selected packages without asking the user >20 times in a row if they prefer XV (or which dictionary they prefer). [...] >(The dictionary issue isn't as important since fewer people install >English, German and French dictionaries.)
(But even if you only install one dictionary, it'll still ask you a question.) The other wordlist package maintainers and I have been discussing this for a while now. We're going to move over to using update-alternatives for Debian 2.1 -- it's really too far into the freeze now to do it for 2.0. For now, all the wordlist packages are being updated to use some slightly more intelligent scripts. When people upgrade bo -> hamm, they will get asked which dictionary they want to be the default, but after that, all further upgrades should be questionless. If you want to have a script install these packages without questions, (let's say you want to make wenglish the default dictionary) first make the symlink /etc/dictionary -> /usr/dict/english, then install the package. Just make sure you unpack the package containing the file /etc/dictionary points to before any of the other dictionaries get configured, though, otherwise the 'broken' symlink will be moved out of the way! Hope this helps, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]