Hi!

On 05/19/2010 07:44 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Feedback welcome! Patches even more :-)

I haven't even looked yet - BUT... I got reminded by a nice "feature" in 
Lunar Linux's package management tools when you were discussing "default 
groups" etc. Perhaps I misunderstood - but I guess its about "questions 
to the user when installing stuff".

Earlier Installer introduced (Keith IIRC) some mechanism to provide 
automatic answers to regular popup dialogs etc. A hack, but still.

In Lunar Linux each module (=package) has a defined *list* of "options" 
with default answers. A typical such question is whether to install an 
optional "nice package" - in fact, those questions may be automatically 
derived from a list of "optional dependencies" - but whatever.

When you perform an installation of a module the dependency system 
figures out the total list of packages to install - and then compiles a 
*complete* list of questions for all modules that it *will* install and 
then asks the user for their answers. Thus, when the install actually 
begins after the questions have been answered it is fully automatic and 
is nicely done "in the background".

This also has the nice side effect that the user can "bail out" in the 
quesion phase if the user realizes that he/she does not know some of the 
answers.

Have no idea if this was totally off subject. :)

regards, Göran