El dom, 13-02-2005 a las 08:06 +0100, Christian Perrier escribió: > > In my opinion, ask again the password is required. > > > > Imagine a password like "a7s9fu29puo121", it is very dangerous > > introduce just one time! Really, it doesn't matter the "complexity" of > > the password, it could mean an extra effort to recover the well > > operation of the system. > > You're missing the point of the critical priority in debconf, imho. > > > > > debconf-devel(7)... > > > > INPUT priority question > > critical > > Items that will probably break the system without user intervention. > > ^^^^^^^^ > > If the matter is "probability", it could be great discuss this. > > Nope. The above is about the requested info missing which would be > likely to break the system. > > Here, the password confirmation value missing will not break the > system, will not prevent the package to configure. The installation > will go on and the whole system will be usable.
Ok, the system wont break, but you wont be able to access it. So the user will be in trouble. > Again and again and again (and probably for the very last time), we > are not talking about default installs here. The critical priority is > meant for quick installs with absolutely minimal prompting, ie only > questions chiwh are absolutely vital for the install to be completed > are asked. I'm agree, but ask twice it's an extra effort to the user that can benefit a lot. > All people who would like to change this are requested to bring the > input from the technical commitee about this issue. > > At this very moment, I have heard from 3-4 people who would like to > change this behaviour. It seems to me that not changing it is the > opinion of several D-I contributors (from the IRC channel log). So, > this is very balanced..... > > Anyway, this will not change for sarge. This is by far too late. That's no problem :) i will be here (i hope) for the next release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
