Ben Collins writes ("Re: Less interactive upgrades."):
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> It would be nice to have a common interface to all package related
> questions. The only down fall is adding one more piece to an already
> complex puzzle. It used to be that the only thing you had to concern
> yourself with on installing packages was dpkg, and now you have apt and
> debconf to add to it.I agree that there should be a single interface - though probably package selection is sufficiently complicated and a sufficiently special case that it should be handled differently. I think that this single interface should be debconf. Surely that's what it's for ? > I'm not against the idea of moving to a common UI for dpkg. I just think > it's only fair to point out what the situation is moving to, especially > when dpkg will have to interact with and depend deeply on this other thing > working properly (dpkg has always been able to work by itself, this will > change that). If we use update-alternatives or something it wouldn't be too hard to have dpkg use a very simple and stupid builtin if debconf wasn't installed. Ian.
