08-06-2001
I think you have a valid point there, but I also think that, AS IS, it's working ok. Personally, I've only been a member for just under 2 months or so, and while the repeated questions even bother me, I know I asked some stupid questions starting out, before I realized the other possibilities on the site.
I think restricting some of that/reviewing posts before they are made is a bit too stringent. There are newbies popping up all over the place on here and I think this should be a place for them to come and ask "stupid" questions as well as advancing some of us that are at a higher level but still need to "move on" or "tweak our own education". I mean, you've done almost all that you can (ie. posting rules, creating the FAQ section, etc, etc..) yet I think no matter what, you'll have those mundane questions that are going to leak through.
To be honest with you, I'm fairly new to all of this myself. And I'm amazed at what I can pick up just reading through the posts and reading the answers that some of the senior members give and otherwise. I'm on here almost daily just browsing and picking up random bits of info. So I think that restricting the majority of those questions could be detrimental to the community. However, that's just my opinion. I love this site and have learned so much from it. Some tweaks could be made, but I think going to a board of moderators would be a bit much. Once again, simply my opinion. Thanks for everything you've done so far.
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dpkg-preconfigure
DPKG-PRECONFIGURE(8) Debconf DPKG-PRECONFIGURE(8)
NAME
dpkg-preconfigure - let packages ask questions prior to their installation
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb
dpkg-preconfigure --apt
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-preconfigure lets packages ask questions before they are installed. It operates on a set of debian packages, and all packages that
use debconf will have their config script run so they can examine the system and ask questions.
OPTIONS
-ftype, --frontend=type
Select the frontend to use.
-pvalue, --priority=value
Set the lowest priority of questions you are interested in. Any questions with a priority below the selected priority will be ignored
and their default answers will be used.
--terse
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--apt
Run in apt mode. It will expect to read a set of package filenames from stdin, rather than getting them as parameters. Typically this
is used to make apt run dpkg-preconfigure on all packages before they are installed. To do this, add something like this to
/etc/apt/apt.conf:
// Pre-configure all packages before
// they are installed.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {
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};
-h, --help
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SEE ALSO
debconf(7)
AUTHOR
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