Take the acroread or libpam-ldap packages as examples.

Even when installed with apt-get --force-yes they still ask questions:

• acroread wants to know whether acrobat should be the standard PDF reader (how to assume yes?)


• libpam-ldap What's your LDAP-Servers URI, version, password, ...? (how to just assume anything, the ldap.conf will be overwritten by puppet anyway)

Is there a "for god's sake assume anything and stop nagging"-switch for apt-get?