https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216097 ------- Comment #17 from andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de 2006-11-11 11:22 MST ------- (In reply to comment #16)
The point I was trying to make is, that apparently even people who want to only see security-patches, seem to use third-party repos. Otherwise they would not have the problem of seeing new packages. Hence the argument that providing the possibility to see updates too would encourage people to add third-party repos falls flat.
Why? I do not get this point. zmd allows subscribed and unsubscribed catalogs, zypp does not. For zypp, a catalog is either enabled and you get all resolvables from it, be it packages or patches, or it is disabled and you get no resolvables from it, neither packages nor patches. Again: The update logic has nothing to do with 3rd party repos. The update logic is based on resolvable types and not on the origin of a repo. Showing newer package versions as updates breaks the idea of optional patches for everyone, including users who have zero 3rd party repos, but only a SUSE DVD and a SUSE security updates repo in their setup. This aspect of the problem does not have anything to do with 3rd party repos.
Apart from that, the argument that this was created for those people who have no use case for zmd falls flat too, as long as zmd (not zen-updater) is started by default on boot. Having two backends in the tray is another matter.
I'm confused. Bug 187377 does not have anything to do with 3rd party sources and bug 219390 is currently waiting for input from the product management. We won't be able to decide about that here. The unnecessarily started zmd is currently caused by simply not knowing how to express something like "Install package X, but not if pattern Y is selected" in patterns. Patterns do not support negative relationships as would be needed here. Bug 219390 has been opened for that, it is not that way on purpose and is really a different bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.