[packagekit] Feeding messages to user while installing packages

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Sun Jan 30 07:04:18 PST 2011


Fabio Erculiani wrote:

> Let me state clearly, not being able to feed messages to user while
> installing a package is a NO-NO for any Gentoo-based distributions.
> This is the reason why I haven't been able to push PackageKit much in
> both Gentoo and Sabayon lands.

Are these interactive, or something that could just be logged somewhere ?

> Is there any possible, reliable solution?

If they are interactive, you could do it the same way as debconf does...

--anders




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