From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>,
Jonas Freimuth <jonas.freimuth@posteo.de>,
Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:22:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k04yxi0p.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lepeoped.fsf@gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:55:22 +0200")
Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Maxim,
>
> On dim., 16 oct. 2022 at 21:22, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If I understood Tobias, they were not suggesting to make the
>> non-interactive installation use case harder/impossible, just to change
>> it from 'yes | ./install.sh' to 'yes "" | ./install.sh', which would
>> give us the freedom to choose a default value of either yes or no for
>> each question.
>
> Thanks for explaining.
>
> IIUC, is the point to have 'default | ./install.sh'?
What do you mean by 'default | ./install.sh' ? I think Tobias' point
was to have the ability for a newline (RET) to mean either YES or NO,
compared to the current case where it always mean YES. "yes ''" does
this: enter nothing then RET, repeatedly.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-17 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-10 15:33 bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility Jonas Freimuth
2022-10-11 16:04 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-11 16:26 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-10-11 18:38 ` zimoun
2022-10-17 1:22 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-17 7:55 ` zimoun
2022-10-17 21:22 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-10-17 21:58 ` zimoun
2022-10-11 19:29 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-11 19:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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