Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (230 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/02/2008, Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "zypper in foo" is the normal use at the command line level, you don't
> > "zypper in foo-1.2.3.i586". Why should the graphical UI, supposed to
> > be more userfriendly and less technical, display an arbitrary
> > technical detail ?
>
> But user might request installing a package coming from specific repository,
> thus (s)he (indirectly) requests a specific version, as the version can be
> different e.g. in main repository and in Packman.
> A typical use cases might be these audio and video players. So user  rather
> thinks "I want an audio player from Packman and not from the main repository,
> as it can't play mp3's" instead of "I want MyCoolPlayer-1.2.3 instead of
> MyCoolPlayer-1.2.2"

+1 , Also need this for one click install so the user doesn't get a
different version of a package to the one he or she was expecting. It
is also one of the most frequently requested features for zypper to
install a specific architecture or vendor package. Version selection
was patched into the yast2-gtk package selector by popular demand
after it was missing in 10.3.

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Benjamin Weber
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