Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> [Shunted to guix-devel@]
>
> Jonas Freimuth 写道：
>> bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh'
>
> While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it always
> will or should be considered supported.
>
> We should reserve the right to ask future questions to which the
> safe/sane/common answer is ‘no’, without phrasing it awkwardly just to
> make an unthinking stream of ‘y’s happy.
>
>  $ guix-install.sh
>  …
>  Would you like to NOT enable the Cool Experimental Feature?
>  (DANGER) [Y/n]
>
> Conversely, I'd like to add a comment that does commit to always
> keeping ‘yes '' | bash guix-install.sh’ working, assuming there was no
> other input or detected issues.  Also nice for humans in a hurry.
>
> Does that seem unreasonable to anyone?

I forgot to add: I think we should only introduce such a change if/when
the need occurs.  We may never need it, and having a 'yes' only bias
forces us to offer only quality additions that we think users ought to
want enabled ;-).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim