RE: Gnome 2.2 suggestions

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 05:45, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:39, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > that's exactly what libredcarpet (in GNOME CVS) does, which is to have a
> > wrapper for the underlying packaging system. And Red Carpet just uses
> > that to work on all supported platforms.
> 
> Of course -- I had forgotten that Red Carpet is available for Debian
> (although only Potato IIRC).

Well, it works on Sid/Woody - there just isn't a channel to subscribe to
for updates.

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?  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.)

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

> 
> Ross
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