Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

[E.S. Rosenberg]

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2014/1/7 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com>:
> Hi Geoff,
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>>
>>> P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get
>>> -y
>>> dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me
>>> questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a
>>> way to make apt-get completely non-interactive.
>>
>>
>> You could reconfigure the debconf package - see dpkg-reconfigure(8).
>
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
>>
>> However, there are some questions that you probably should see when
>> upgrading, for example when a config file that ships in a package has been
>> modified since installation and you need to decide whether to install the
>> new config file or stick with the old one.  Having had to do this very thing
>> today, sometime the answer was one and sometimes the answer was the other,
>> and mostly it involved a bit of both (choosing one answer but adding some
>> content from the other).  The ability to view a diff between the files is a
>> big help in these situations.
>
>
> Yes, I see now. I think all my Debian systems are either VMs or a secondary
> partition, so it should not be too critical, and what rpm-based systems do
> is keep .rpmnew and .rpmsave files for this.
Debian does that too, that still doesn't change the fact that the
system needs to know which version of config to use, you don't want
apache, squid or any other program to revert to vanilla state after
you worked hard on configuring it (even if you can replace your custom
config in a second, between it hapenning and you noticing you have
'down time').

Also you want to know when new configs come because even when you
choose to keep your own the old sometimes is incompatible with the new
so you will actually know that something may go wrong.

And restarting services without asking the admin is that really
something you want to be default? You can tell it to behave like that,
but handle with care Windows tends to do stuff like that and everyone
curses it for it (rightly so).

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו

>
> Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
>
> — Shlomi Fish
>
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