[Bug 22306] Re: misleading text in configuration script

[Thomas Hotz]

Closing because of no response.

** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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Title:
  misleading text in configuration script

Status in “debconf” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When I run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" in an Emacs shell
  buffer, I see:

    debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
    debconf: (Dialog frontend is incompatible with emacs shell buffers)
    debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline

  as I would expect.

  Later on in the configuration script, it tells me:

    "If you unsure what to do, leave all of the modules enabled."

  This word 'leave' suggests to me that all the modules are already enabled, and
  that I don't need to do anything if I want to keep them enabled, so I just hit
  return at the prompt.  It turns out that if I do that, I end up with no Modules
  section in my xorg.conf, and that what I should really have typed at the prompt
  was "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13".

  It would be a lot clearer if the text didn't mention "leave all the modules
  enabled", but rather said "enable all the modules", suggesting that I had to do
  something.

  As an aside, I see option 14 is "none of the above".  This further leads me to
  believe that all 13 options are currently already selected, else why would there
  be an option to unselect them?  How about having an option 15 for "all of the
  above" instead of having me type all the numbers?

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