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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Proposed filesystem layout for print
 ppd and driver files
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To: "Wichmann, Mats D" <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Cc: wendyp@jurassic.eng.sun.com, rusty@samba.org, printing-architecture <printing-architecture@freestandards.org>, "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>, Wendy Phillips <wendy.phillips@sun.com>

Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>>and the install scripts should by default (asking could be supressed by
>>a command line option) not overwrite files without asking the user.
> 
> 
> If you mean install scripts run by a package postinstall,
> "asking" is not allowed for rpm packages - they *must*
> be able to run non-interactively.  
> 

Therefore the command line option to supress asking. Then we should
require such an option, too, to facilitate packaging.

   Till