#20 "Show Details" by default
Please show details by default during a
download/configure/install session (or at least if
the program requires some keyboard input).
Some applications ask questions about how they should
be configured in text mode in the console. When
details are not shown, the questions, if any, are not
visible and the computer will just sit there waiting
for input until it gets some.
An example of this is the SVN install process: this
package asks text-mode questions during its
configuration/install. If unanswered the program sits
there doing nothing. To hide the detail in cases such
as these is inexpedient. It is true that the detail
is not always necessary, so if there is a way to
detect that the program is waiting for keyboard
input, then that could be used to show the text-mode
details only when necessary. Otherwise, the detail
could remain hidden (unless overridden by the user).
so that questions e.g. for svn can be seen and
answered