Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (17 mails)

[Jano Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Andres wrote:
> On Monday 29 June 2009 15:16:09 Jano Kupec wrote:
> > > 'zypper list-patches' - consider the latest patch only.
> > Heh, after i read your first mail, i was convinced to show all (needed)
> > versions here :O) Here's why:
> >
> > This way the user won't see that s/he can choose from multiple versions
> > and all the bugs the new patches are fixing. 
>
> There's no real choice. Only the latest Patch fixes 'everything', so this is 
> what zypper should suggest.

Yes, unless some serious bug sneaks into the latest patch :O) Should not
happen, but sometimes it does.

> (you could offer 'list-patches --all' to also include needed older versions)

True.

-- 
cheers,
jano


 Ján Kupec
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