Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg should start one thread to extract a package, when a package is > done a second threat is signaled and the next is extracted. > > The second thread configures the package. If any question is to be > asked, the controll is given to a third threat and the next package is > configured. > > The third thread pops up the question.
Some issues: (1) dpkg already sucks up a lot of memory which can really bog down a system (2) this doesn't work very well with apt (which also implies that there are subtle system integrity issues to worry about). (3) there's a real problem where you currently must ask questions in the order they're presented, rather than some order which makes sense. (4) there's a real problem where it's clumsy to fix typing mistakes. These aren't always isolated. For example, more than once I've shot past several questions because I thought I hadn't struck the enter key properly, but really some aspect of the interactive task was paged out temporarily. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
