Debconf GNOME UI and libgnome2-perl

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> I'm open to adding libgnome2-perl to the desktop seed in order to support
> the debconf GNOME frontend.
> 
> - We ask very few questions in main anyway
> - For packages which do ask questions, it is important that the user see
>   them and know that their input is required
> - While the UI is not ideal, I don't think it's _that_ bad
> - This change would allow us to hide the terminal window by default, which
>   is a usability improvement which (in my opinion) more than offsets the
>   occasional ugly popup dialog.  No more cryptic scrolling text!

And (just to make absolutely sure) you're comfortable with a new, ~7MB
installed stack in the default desktop and for us to support?

- Jeff

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