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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
