Re: user feedback during (un)installation

2005-04-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:31:25AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Sven Mueller wrote: > > > >Installations with debian packages are far too verbose already for my > >taste. Please don't bother the admin (me) with questions at uninstall > >time as well. I hate giving an (un)install command, only to come

Re: user feedback during (un)installation

2005-04-01 Thread Sven Mueller
Bas Wijnen wrote on 02/04/2005 00:31: Sven Mueller wrote: Installations with debian packages are far too verbose already for my taste. Please don't bother the admin (me) with questions at uninstall time as well. I hate giving an (un)install command, only to come back a few hours later to see that i

Re: user feedback during (un)installation

2005-04-01 Thread Bas Wijnen
Sven Mueller wrote: Installations with debian packages are far too verbose already for my taste. Please don't bother the admin (me) with questions at uninstall time as well. I hate giving an (un)install command, only to come back a few hours later to see that it waits for my input approx. 10% throu

user feedback during (un)installation

2005-04-01 Thread Sven Mueller
Kim Lundgren wrote on 01/04/2005 00:16: Leave the deletion of obsolete users up to the system administrator, do not do so on purge. What about small daemons that don't generate any files and don't require anything apart from what's in the package? In general, you cannot assume that the administator