Re: Diety UI draft
Bill Mitchell wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:
>
> But the point would be to warn when there's not going to be enough
> space. It seems insufficient for the feature which does this warning
> to work only almost always, and/or except in the case of really big
> packages. (that is, it sometimes doesn't work, especially when a
> space problem with downloaded packages is especially likely)
>
> Option#2Con#2: Some users might want to retain downloaded packages.
> (e.g., users with very slow downloading capabilities
> and sufficient local space (online or offline) may want
> to keep downloaded packages around against possible future
> needs once they've been downloaded very slowly). This
> option doesn't seem to address those users' needs.
The ftp access method is not meant to be used for this. It is meant
soley for upgrading your machine from a remote source of deb packages.
To keep a local copy of deb packages, I suggest users check out
the mirror package. Deity has been designed as a package manager,
not a mirror program.
> > I repeat though, the UI has nothing to do with this implementation
> > detail.
> >
> > I will pass this problem on to the appropriate person in the deity
> > team.
>
> Yep. As far as UI issues go, the UI needs to be able of telling
> users how much space is needed -- partition-by-partition if that
> info is available. If there's not going to be enough space, the
> UI needs to either warn the user of that or refuse to attempt
> an install which is clearly destined to fail.
As far as space needed to install packages, that info is already
available:
http://www.verisim.com/~behanw/deity/deity-ui_0.10.html#sel_status
Thank you for your interest,
Behan
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