Idea for a possible patch to the dpkg/apt system

[Chris Neary]

>
> Like if you, say, set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive before running
> apt-get,
> and then ran a small shell script to find all files ending in dpkg-new and
> ask the appropriate questions?
>
>
I hadn't considered that - I never knew that environment variable existed.
I'll be sure to do that next time I upgrade. It could however be an option
in update-manager to switch noninteractive mode on in the GUI upgrade
manager.

Just because it can be done 'behind the scenes' in an unofficial sort of
shell scripty way, doesn't mean it shouldn't make the mainstream of the GUI,
surely.

Chris
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