On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:27:16 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "BN" == Bill Nottingham
<notting(a)redhat.com> writes:
BN> Honestly, I thought it was already part of the
BN> policies. %pre/%post can not be interactive.
I thought "interactive" meant "accepting or expecting input".
I'm not
sure that simple display of text is also forbidden.
Then let's make it "scriptlets can neither be interactive nor informative".
You cannot expect GUI tools to capture stdout/stderr output and display it
during or after installation/upgrade/removal of a package. In other words,
output is lost (if not logged in any place, which would be non-obvious).
Trying to give post-install instructions to a user via scriptlets is bad
habit. Should happen in README %doc files instead.