[packagekit] PackageKit & Debian, Was: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett]

Martin Pitt wrote:
> For debconf, with using dpkg, -ish. You download it, and run the
> .config script separately. Or you first only unpack it, and configure
> the package afterwards. Either way, .config is a real (shell) script,
> and can thus decide whether it needs to ask a question with
> arbitrarily complex code, so statically deciding which question is
> shown doesn't work. 
>   
Ok, so introducing the concept of configured packages is ok, the problem
is that the debconf scripts are not designed for gui and ask data
however they like. If they had a standard way to ask data, then that
program could be replaced by a packagekit one.

What do GUI apps do? start a terminal with the script?!

Duncan