Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (92 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Friday 24 August 2007 12:13:26 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett ste napísal:
> On Friday 24 August 2007 11:03:39 Stefan Schubert wrote:
> > Katarina Machalkova schrieb:
> > > Provided that this method is really deprecated, I'm probably supposed
> > > to use something else instead, to achieve the same goal in UI ;-) 
> > > Could you please point me to some other libzypp method I can possibly
> > > use, or advise me how to collect names of the packages that will be
> > > installed once user select a pattern?
> >
> > This was a very quick hack and with a lot of unexpected behaviour.
> > Now you only have to select the pattern and make a complete solver run.
> > The solver will select the concerning packages which you will have to
> > pick up then.
>
> That is exactly the point we have been discussing from the beggining.
>
> - ZYpp developers can't accept the fact that someone wants to look
> pattern "contents" instead of looking the result of selecting a pattern at
> transaction time.
>
> - UI developers insist that patches and patterns have content. While the
> poor Patch and Pattern class have no knowledge about that, they just
> depends on things, and the solver knows what to grab. It is understandable,
> because the UIs were mostly "adapted". A new concept is needed here. I
> agree at least for patterns, being able to see packages one by one is
> really useful, I use it a lot, but I would call it "related packages", and
> not the content of the pattern itself.

I need an explanation for a user what a pattern is. I mean, user concept, not 
a technical description.

Stano
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