Clayton wrote:
I haven't spent enough time with 11.0Alphas to speak for changes there, but in 10.3 and older.... when you open YAST (using all default settings, no after-install tweaks, so as a new user would use it), and select a few packages to be installed, the dependency and conflict resolution does not happen until you either click the Check Dependencies button, or you click Apply... then a window is popped open which basically says, oh by the way I have all these other packages that need to be installed... no clear indication of what extra bits belong to which applicaton.
Isn't there a tickbox to enabled dependency auto-check? WHich is disabled by default as it often takes too long to check for every change. Anyway, does the inexperienced user really care what belongs to the application or not?
In conflict resolution, the window used to display the conflict errors is confusing even to experienced users... and you never feel you really have a handle on what is going on, or what you just did was what you hoped you wanted.
Hmm, I actually quite like that window with conflict resolution.
Looking at software outside of openSUSE... take Synaptic... again from a new user perspective... Synaptic, like Smart, also presents information about the app you are installing/updating... you know when you click on something what the impact is likely to be.
But as a new users aren't you unlikely to have any real need/use for that information? /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org