On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote: [snip] > On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at > installation time, e.g. "NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE", and have the > maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not? > If this variable were set to TRUE, I'd like to see packages which require > configuration send mail to root with a message like:
Somone a while ago suggested allowing the user to automatically answer all of the "overwrite existing file? [N/y]" that dpkg asks when the config file changes in the packge. Just getting rid of these messages would get rid of quite a few. Personally I _always_ keep the current one. Then every now and again I go through /etc and merge in any changes. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
