Re: More thoughts on gnome-apt
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Ok, I've got yet more suggestions for gnome-apt. Hope no-one minds my
> noisiness. ;-)
>
No problem, I'll warn you that it will take a good long time to do all
this though. :-) I'm going to be extra-busy over the next few months in
particular and will probably only do small things and deal with any
patches.
> I don't think (after using Apt a little) that Apt marks packages which are
> new after the package lists have been updated. This is a fairly important
> feature, IMO. Maybe it does it and I didn't realize though.
>
It doesn't do this; we'd need a flag in the package cache. Jason could
tell you what it would involve.
> It would be easier to find broken packages if the red text propagated up the
> tree; ie, if I have a broken package in X11, the tree item for X11 would use red
> text. (but other X11 packages wouldn't)
>
Good idea; should be easy to implement. Into the queue...
> Sometimes there are so many packages listed that the scroll bar won't take
> me to all of them.
>
Urgh, I thought I got rid of this. I doubt it's a matter of number of
packages, though it could be. More likely some particular situation leads
to the problem. If you can guess at that...
Can you arrow key or PageDown to the rest of the packages?
> I don't know whether apt currently does this because I'm not near this point,
> but it would be nice if it checked that you had enough free space on the
> filesystem before it started working (to avoid getting 1/2 way through an
> upgrade and running out of space)
>
I believe it will come up with an error at some point before launching
dpkg. If it doesn't, let me know.
> gnome-apt should come with an icon. ;-) (the line-art penguin would be
> good..)
>
I have a request in to tigert. ;-) In the meantime I guess it would be
easy to set that penguin as the icon, I can do that.
> Is it really necessary to display packages which have no available version?
> I can..perhaps..see a few benefits to tracking them, but unless they're
> installed, it seems to be redundant to display them since there's no way
> to install them; they just clutter up the display.
>
I'd like a toggle for this too. What if I add a new status, Not
Installable, and then you can filter it?
Havoc
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