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Re: recent sysinst UX changes



On 09/11/2020 21:49, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
Unfortunately it leads to surprise failures if programs ever use
/dev/random. If not seeded, reads from it will block forever.
If it has such consequences, the installer - or maybe a 'first-run' startup script? - should of course take care of it. That said, UX aside, a human being is certainly the less appropriate "device" to properly handle such a computer-centric task.

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