On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:10:59PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > Interactivity would also be good for "failed to get console-data. [Skip] > > [Abort]" sorts of options, which would probably be handy. > As it stands if I get an E: message I put up a problemBox() and the user needs > to hit continue, we try to continue, Dunno if there's much point continuing on an E: message... Anyway, debootstrap will now (once I test it some more and upload it, anyway) accept a --boot-floppies argument as the first option, and if it receives it, it'll redirect dpkg's stdin from /dev/null, and send E:, I: and W:'s to &3. stdout and stderr will be just used by dpkg, and could be sent to vt3 or whatever. > Perhaps if debootstrap wants some sort of input it can send me a ?: with a > prompt, I'll have the user fill in a text field and pass the response to > debootstrap? That's not a bad idea. If you make ?: bool Please just tell me: yes, or no? pop up a yes/no dialogue, that'd probably work pretty well. Things other than bool can just pop up a text dialogue, that way we can extend things easily enough later. > What we really need is a list of the sorts of interaction that we want to > support. We can probably live without it for the minute, at least... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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