Bill Wohler writes ("Making filesystems at installation time"):
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> The idea with all this installation stuff is to avoid having user
> actions interspersed with automatic actions that take a while. This
> also goes for dpkg -GROEB --configure--all the packages that require
> user intervention for setup should be postponed until last.
That can't be done, because (a) dpkg doesn't know and (b) the
configure order is largely determined by the dependencies.
dpkg already unpacks packages first and then configures them all
later, and the unpack is (almost) entirely noninteractive.
Ian.
