"Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal"

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Derek Broughton spake thusly on 235326680 ::
> Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:46:49 -0700
>> "Scott (angrykeyboarder)" <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure when I first started seeing this response in Synaptic's
>>> terminal window, but I think it was in edgy. I'm running Feisty now.
>>> It's not always been this way.
>>>
>>> Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal - falling back to
>>> readline"
>>    I started seeing this in Debian Sid on my machine about a week
>> ago...right after a Synaptic upgrade.
>> But it doesn't seem to affect installing or removing packages.
> 
> It's just the way that the underlying software (debconf?) tries to talk to
> the interactive user. 

The default setting is Dialog and when Dialog encounters the "dumb
terminal" in Synaptic (which didn't used to be the case) if falls back
to readline.

> There's no real need to be sending that message

Yes there is, because you're being told that your not going to get
Dialog (which in my case I'd been expecting).


 - it
> tries various methods and, in this particular case, ends up using readline.  

Precisely. But this is new behavior and it's annoying. :)

Perhaps I'll file a bug report (or add my $.02 to one).


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            Scott
http://angrykeyboarder.com
©2007 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wites Wesewved

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