Re: Debian Hurd package

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:59:12PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > - Can you show the user a dialog when configuring the Hurd package so
> >   the user can choose if he wants to use the old or new console?
> 
> No way.  Dialog boxes at installation time are evil in general, but that's
> just one reason.  The new console should just be the default when it can be.
> We don't need more testers of what works reasonably well already, but new
> features that allow it to work with X.

But what do you want for now?  The current status is that people don't
know about the new console and that X doesn't work with it.  Do you
want debian to wait until it works with X?

I am willing to work on the console to make it work with X, but I
can't do that soon.

Thanks,
Marco