Hi Martin:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 03:43, Martin Pitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.pitt@ubuntu.com">martin.pitt@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Mario Limonciello [2009-11-04 17:08 -0600]:<br> <div class="im">> I see three potential improvements to Jockey for this scenario.<br> ><br> </div>> 1. Have Jockey be able to work in an interactive frontend. If the<br> <div class="im">> package install behavior is modified to query if the headers are yet<br> > available, then you can more nicely present this information to the user<br> <br> </div>What do you mean by "interactive frontend"? For debconf you mean?<br> I'm afraid that requires a rewrite of Jockey, since it's currently<br> frontend <-> dbus <-> backend <-> python-apt, so the backend doesn't<br> have X access. I'm afraid this isn't SRUable.<br></blockquote><div><br>As i'm sure you are aware, there are other deficiencies with the way things are done now <br>1) Not being able to represent whether something failed to install or download<br> 2) Not being able to ask to insert CD media if it's present there<br><br>As you said, this doesn't sound SRUable, but for Lucid perhaps the better solution is to use python-aptdaemon. It can certainly provide more of this information more easily.<br> </div></div><br>-- <br>Mario Limonciello<br><a href="mailto:superm1@gmail.com">superm1@gmail.com</a><br>Sent from Austin, Texas, United States