synaptic with dpkg progressbar in hoary

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:27:23PM -0800, Joe Barnett wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:58:15 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:20:49PM -0800, Joe Barnett wrote:
> > 
> > > The only problem I've noticed with this so far is that it doesn't
> > > interact well (or at all) with apt-listchanges...  You need to use the
> > > terminal to see/accept the new changes.
> > 
> > You can configure apt-listchanges to launch a separate window to display
> > changes.
> 
> yeah, but it still asks for the confirmation in the main terminal window.

That, too, is configurable (at least, you can turn off confirmation).
Doing this right would involve much tighter integration with synaptic, I
expect.

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 - mdz