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Feature added by: Martin Schlander (cb400f)

Feature #307255, revision 1
Title: Less scary yast conflict dialogs 
  
openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed
Priority 
    Requester: Important 
 
Requested by: Martin Schlander (cb400f) 
 
Description: 
The YaST2 sw_single dialog for conflicts, vendor change, architecture change 
etc. is very scary for many users.

The dialog asks the user to select one of usually three offered solutions for 
each problem without giving much help. This is a cause for many complaints, and 
contributes to myths of RPM dependency hell still existing today.

Zypper on the other hand, does things differently. Zypper will select an action 
for the user, then informs the user of the changes that will be made, and asks 
a Yes or No question whether the user wishes to proceed or not.

I suggest to implement behaviour similar to zypper in the YaST dialog. However, 
the old functionality of letting the user select a solution manually for each 
individual problem should probably be kept, as a "hidden" expert/advanced 
option in the dialog. 
 
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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/307255