<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.
You can't kludge that. :-)
- Jeff
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