Bug#320159: acknowledged by developer (Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#320159: alsa-utils: alsaconf cannot be utilised unattented in any way shape or form)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:03:22PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > it is not possible to install debian with sound because alsaconf
> > uses "dialog".
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> It is not necessary to use alsaconf to install sound.  alsaconf is only
> useful these days as a diagnostic tool.
> 
> Alsaconf will probably be removed from the package in the future.

 someone's got to be doing better - hurrah.

 btw did you see the patch which allows alsaconf to be run "unattended"?