Re: graphical apt, trials and tribulations
<quote who="Seth Nickell">
> Depends on what you mean by "fair," *wink*. RPM doesn't ask questions,
> which is perhaps a missing feature because you just get this glob on
> your disk with no idea what to do next, but it also makes it feasible
> for good graphical package managers to exist. It may have been accident
> on their part, it may have been design decision, I don't know.
Although various parts of Debian are not ready for this (pointed out
earlier), I strongly believe that non-interactive package installations as
*policy* (rather than as a system setting, ala Debconf notifications) are a
bad idea.
This is an infrastructural issue; the software needs to be fixed, not the
policy.
- Jeff
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