Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 26, 2011 13:18 UTC (Wed) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration by Darkmere
Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Not sure if it *can* force it, but I've been updating automatically (using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive) for over a year now and I've never come across a situation where it *does* force it.

Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 26, 2011 14:29 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (guest, #36106) [Link] (1 responses)

If by "force interactivity" you mean "prompt you by default if you don't know how to tell it not to" then the answer is "Yes." That's probably what he meant.

Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 26, 2011 14:43 UTC (Wed) by DOT (subscriber, #58786) [Link]

What concept do you think the word "default" relates to: format or configuration?