On 08/02/2008, Katarina Machalkova
"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. -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org