as the development team of the smart package manager is getting ready to release smart 0.42 shortly, I would like to ask everyone who is using smart on SUSE Linux to help testing.
I'm afraid I'm running out of time to spend on this. See my previous comments on this list for starters. Then add: * The handling of repository types and repository locations is not independent. Some types can only be fetched from some locations. * Auto-detection of repository type is lousy, with output of what it is expected to find too short. Also, type "bunch of rpm files" should always work as a fallback. It doesn't. * The main smart window and its pop-up window sometimes look stone dead, no input accepted. Confusing, until one finds that clicking the main smart window to the foreground brings the pop-up on top, but leaves the second-level pop-up right at the bottom of the pile of desktop windows. * I can see no way to tell it to only install X, and Y of the currently available updates, but not the other 20. I prefer to be in control when I want to. * There is no obvious "tell me what you're gonna do" if I click on something potentialy desastrous, like the "go for it" button. * It needs to handle patch and delta rpms. * Log windows can extend way below the bottom of the screen, no scroll bar, and resizing is disabled. At least the "X"-off button at the top-right window corner still works... * A quick-launch icon-status thing for the KDE panel along the lines of susewatcher is essential. If 0.42 has it, make sure it works ;) * Personal preference, but I don't like the gnome look. * The package list needs to be optionally separate for packages from other repositories. Specifically, when I'm interested in vendor updates, I don't need to see the gazillion things already installed. For a quick updater prog, I like to see: the updates currently available for packages I have installed, and all the updates available, including those not appliccable and those already installed, suitably marked. I stay with my earlier opinion that if smart wants to deserve its name, it needs to get rather better than it is now. It's better than a proof-of-concept, but doesn't reach "SUSE standard". Mind you, SUSE doesn't currently reach its own standard either *vbg* Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org