Re: Clarification: Eliminate nagging at installation time?

1999-07-08 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:04:09AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Norbert Nemec wrote: > > IMO, packages should under no circumstances complain > > about anything if it is avoidable at all. No matter if there is a automatic > > configuration system or not. We should simply make it

Re: Clarification: Eliminate nagging at installation time?

1999-07-08 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:07:46AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Norbert Nemec wrote: > > Ok, but the problem I see, is that you are forced to answer all the > > questions right there in the middle of the installation. If you don't want > > to (or can't) decid

Re: Clarification: Eliminate nagging at installation time?

1999-07-07 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 03:46:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 08:03:19AM +0000, Norbert Nemec wrote: > > I do not talk about where packages should get their configuration > > information from, I did talk about what they do, if they do not have the

Re: Clarification: Eliminate nagging at installation time?

1999-07-07 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:42:16AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > There are reasonable defaults for all these things, and they can all > > be fixed after install. But it seems to me that the possibility of > > having your system suddenly get trashed for no apparent reason makes > > the nagging

Clarification: Eliminate nagging at installation time?

1999-07-07 Thread Norbert Nemec
Ok, thanks for your reactions. I know, guys like me can get on ones nerves... :-) I'm moving this thread to debian-policy, where I should have started it rigth at the beginning. Please reply there. I knew there would be people working on that problem, but actually, my idea goes into some complete

Re: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

1999-06-24 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:14:18PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:32:35PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > > > Can you provide any positive arguments in *favor* of undocumented(7)? > > > One thing undocumented(7) does is suggest so