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

[Maxim Cournoyer]

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