Re: graphical apt, trials and tribulations

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:18:15PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Colin Watson">
> > Um. Can't you just popen() dpkg (or apt-get) and read from it as it's
> > running, parsing the output to decide what's happening? Just because it's
> > a separate process should have no bearing on whether you can get feedback,
> > unless I'm missing something quite considerable ...
> 
> Consider the installation of exim or hylafax. You can't do anything but
> bring up a terminal widget, because that's the only possible interface to
> their configuration processes.

Oh, indeed. However, I didn't think that was what Seth was talking about
in the mail I was directly replying to. I might have misunderstood.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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