synaptic with progress bar while installing

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 14:14 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:

> - synaptic will hang on applications that use read in maintainer
>   scripts. It can't detect that and will hang with a message like
>   "configuring $packagename". 
> 
I can't help but wonder whether there's some trick we could use by
allocating a pty and somehow detecting when an application tries to read
across it -- and then throwing up the terminal window.

I shall have to have a look through Stevens.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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