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Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility
From: |
zimoun |
Subject: |
Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:38:55 +0200 |
Hi Tobias,
On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 18:26, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> 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]
Personally, I am always confused by the negative form of a question. :-)
> 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?
>From my point of view, it could nice to have a way to run the
installation script without any human action. For instance, install
Guix in some GitHub/Gitlab CI.
Cheers,
simon