Richard hates stuff asking questions during installation ;-) - that's *the* longest discussion we had, since PackageKit's inception: ``` What is Hughsie's law?
A joke that started on IRC late one night in '07. Put formally it is: Authentication or license prompts can only be done before the transaction has started, and messages or notices about the transaction can only be shown after the transaction has completed. ``` (no sure why this isn't on the PK FAQ anymore) If the aptcc PackageKit backend receives a request to be noninteractive, it should set the Debconf frontent to `noninteractive` and disable everything that could potentially ask questions. This should at least prevent the update process to hang on Debconf prompts. I guess we could enable Debconf prompts for GS though (maybe make it configurable, so Fedora and other distros can be non-interactive by default), as apparently it seems to work okay at Ubuntu for the current aptd backend. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643134 Title: Switch gnome-software to use PackageKit backend To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1643134/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
