Setup isn't unattended

[codygman]

Setup requires user to confirm our is okay to kill buffers so you can't just run setup and go do something else.

[TheBB]

Packages are free to do whatever when compiling, there's not much we can do to guarantee an automatic installation.

[codygman]

Couldn't we disable all confirmations for setup and then enable them after?

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[TheBB]

We could advise y-or-n-p perhaps, but it sounds risky. It's like answering without knowing what the question is.

[TheBB]

To paraphrase Simon Peyton Jones, what if a package asks

(when (y-or-n-p "Launch the missiles?")
  (launch-missiles))

and we have advised y-or-n-p to always return yes?

[cpaulik]

@TheBB you are fast. Commenting from the future 😄

Anyway I agree with you. And just advising y-or-n-p would probably not be enough since some packages like e.g. pdf-tools will also ask for the sudo password if they need to install system packages.

[codygman]

I didn't know there were packages that needed sudo. I suppose there isn't a sane way to handle this. I wonder if advising yes-or-no-p in cases except the sudo one you mention is possible though.

[d12frosted]

💃 I like the jokes!

[JAremko]

https://github.com/JAremko/spacemacs/blob/master/Dockerfile#L124 works for me.

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