On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:04:44PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you think that > > echo "Exiting" > exit 1 > > is sufficient, even if dpkg tries to configure a couple of other
No, because there could be dozens of other packages that dpkg is trying to configure, and some of them are verbose or fast. It's easy for that to scroll by, especially if somebody isn't watching the terminal intently. > packages afterwards? Do we really need to let the user acknowledge at > that place? Yes, I think that would be good. > Or did it (i.e. the newer version of tex-common) *not* exit with an > error on your system *although* the conffiles were still missing an > important entry? Well, tex-common had configured itself successfully, so I guess that it may not have noticed that. -- John
