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Re: some ideas methods and techniques for dealing with excessively verbose or inquisitive or garrulous installation and upgrade messages :-) (was Re: New updated "1.2 installation problems" list.)

In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961220100122.30414B-100000@siva.taz.net.au> you wrote:
: 
: > Just print a short notice, that should be good enough.
: 
: printed notices are only useful if the user is watching the screen when
: they're printed...they usually scroll by too fast to read.

It would be *way* cool if dselect logged all of the stdout/stderr from the 
install phase to a file somewhere.  The HP-UX SD tools do this, and it's very
nice to be able to launch an upgrade/install, go do something else, and come
back to review the contents of the file before proceeding.

This could probably be done quickly by running dselect inside script or 
something similar, but augmenting dselect to log all of this stuff to a 
standard location would be even better.

Bdale


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