Re: Proposal: a generic dpkg event hook broker

2003-06-03 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:23:03PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > Already being planned for dpkg 2.0. Note, this has to be tied in with the > status of the package being hooked, as the status changes state, so it really > needs to be done in dpkg. Great! There is also the SE-Linux version of dpkg wh

Re: Proposal: a generic dpkg event hook broker

2003-06-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Jarno Elonen wrote: Already being planned for dpkg 2.0. Note, this has to be tied in with the status of the package being hooked, as the status changes state, so it really needs to be done in dpkg.

Proposal: a generic dpkg event hook broker

2003-06-02 Thread Jarno Elonen
Hi, Packages often benefit from having other packages installed but don't necessary require them, hence 'suggests' and 'recommends'. Such packages, however, often require additional configuration to make them work with those optional packages. It's not usually very complicated and could in man