On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:45:19PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote: > But right now I'm more interested in ideas people have about allowing dpkg > to be split into a libdpkg that gives feedback as it installs and a dpkg > command-line frontend (much as the split between libapt-pkg and apt-get > happens today). This is really critical to providing the user with > feedback during the install process. Right now we get nice feedback as the > packages are downloading and during setup to some extent, but almost no > feedback while the (potentially rather long) dpkg process itself is > occurring. I just say "Installing packages", but you really should tell > the user more for such a long operation.
I don't think it's necessary to provide a library API to get this functionality...how about using formatted messages over a pipe, as with debootstrap --boot-floppies? -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
