Re: Red Carpet (was Gnome 2.2 suggestions)

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:03, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> And, as someone who hasn't tried it in a while - how does it handle
> debconf?  Does it make sure gnome-debconf front-end is loaded?  

Not at present, no.  It just goes with the default.

> Also, what about the packages that ask questions/run-scripts on the
> command-line? (Yes, those are broken, but a few still exist I
> believe.)

RC has always handled those: it pops up a window where you can interact
with the script.  The solution is perhaps more evil than the problem. 
*shudder*

> Those right there are good reasons why a universal package manager can't
> exist.  ~,^

It's definitely tricky.

Joe