On 11/25/08, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still don't understand why you are restricting it to a single category > of questions. Debconf allows that and much more, in a (of course) > structured way.
Right, so you guys need to propose extensions (and code!) on the PackageKit mailing list like SUSE guys did with the EULA callbacks. > Synaptic won't open a terminal either, except on request, for > informational purposes. But it's running a hidden VTE widget. As root. > Furthermore it sounds strange to advocate at the same time that people > don't run a GTK+ app as root, and to ask to use something else than > PackageKit to do complex operations. Is secure design only good for > small operations? Or maybe you think distribution upgrades can only be > done with a CLI? We need to discuss this on the PK mailing list. > I don't recall having asked anyone to implement anything for us. However > I do recall being explained that, if implemented, debconf support would > not make it into your code. Quote me: "Advanced users can reconfigure packages in a debian specific helper program (I'll even ship this in PackageKit in the contrib directory if you want)." > These kinds of little sentences are precisely the hostility I was > talking about. You grew hate for the very idea of correctly supporting > Debian based on false ideas of what our requirements are, and ignored > any further attempts of explanations. No, this is not the case at all. This is my last email on this thread. Richard. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
