Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (92 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
> On Friday 24 August 2007 11:03, Stefan Schubert wrote:
> ...
> As a user, I want to know what packages I'll get before I select a pattern. If 
> the new behaviour is like you described, the user will se no pattern content 
> (no packages) before selecting the pattern and all packages that somehow got 
> dragged into the install set (regardless whether by the pattern or otherwise) 
> afterwards.
> 
> This invalidates the whole idea of that "Patterns" filter view. The only thing 
> that would make sense would to only have the simple pattern selector that 
> ...
> Very much the same would be true for patch contents that (AFAICS) has the same 
> problem: No list of packages any more.

That's true, as a user, I always check which packages a patch/pattern
contains because I want to know the relation between the patch/pattern
(name) and its content (what it affected, what else should I select...).

Such statements as "user doesn't want", "user wants", "user needs"
should be supported by, at least, some mail written to the community at
factory@opensuse or some Internet survey.

It seems we need to provide surveys *before* we change some important
parts, or, at least, *after* we change them (however *before* sounds
better).

Frankly, I've found, that all of us (including myself, of course) are
"freaks" :) that don't now what the real life is :) ;) We know our
distribution, we know our packages, we know our source code, but we
really *don't know* what our users want...

Is There Anybody Out There?
Lukas