Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (230 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova@xxxxxxx> [Feb 08. 2008 10:53]:
> > "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" 

Yes, fully agreed. One needs to specify version and/or repository.
But thats the exception (imho) and one mostly is interested in the
package name.
So the default view should include the name, multiple versions or
multiple repositories belong to the detailed view.

> > If the user marks the candidate (having a specific version from a
> > specific repository), this is very misleading.
>
> I think the specific repository of origin of the package is more important to 
> the user than its actual version. Come on, how many times (when installing a 
> package via GUI or TUI) you really look at the column with version numbers?

:-) That's exactly the point. I usually look at the name (and only the
name).

Klaus
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