Debconf GNOME UI and libgnome2-perl

[Jeff Waugh]

Good morning freedom lovers!

I've just been chatting to Michael Vogt about adding libgnome2-perl to the
DesktopSeed so we can have debconf questions popping up with a GNOME druid
UI instead of relying on synaptic's vte terminal. On my system, that would
require another 1.8MB of packages, 6.3MB unpacked:

  $ sudo apt-get install libgnome2-perl
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    libglib-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtk2-perl
  Suggested packages:
    libgtk2-perl-doc
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libglib-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl
    libgtk2-perl
  0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 1848kB of archives.
  After unpacking 6255kB of additional disk space will be used.

I'm not really happy with debconf's current GNOME frontend, so I should make
it clear that this has influenced my answer. :-) I think we should suffer
the vte terminal for hoary, but write a great pygtk debconf frontend for our
next release. It saves us adding the gnome/perl stack to our supported set
(it's in main now, but only as an explicit seed addition, which we can roll
back) and saves adding it to desktop (which would impact CD size).

Thanks,

- Jeff

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