Michael Vogt wrote: > I would like to hide the cacncel button and the close button in the > gnome frontend by default. The rational is that users often click it > when they don't have a clue what to answer. > > But because "cancel" is mapped to "exit 1" this makes the maintainer > script that calls debconf fail. This is especially a problem during > dist-upgrades where failures in maintainer scripts are bad.
I think the button should optimally prompt to make sure the user wants to abort. The dialog frontend lacks a way to cancel, and I typically find that annoying, since sometimes you really do want to effectively ctrl-c the whole upgrade. -- see shy jo
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