Brian May wrote: > Just curious, why does realplayer have to do it in the postinst > script?
Actually, I was misremembering -- it used to do that but I removed it. > As another example though, look at heimdal-kdc, which needs to ask for > the password, which must be kept as secure as possible. I think we decided it was woth it from a paranoia standpoint to ask for this passowrd in the same program that used it. Debconf should handle passwords safely though. -- see shy jo
