Hello, Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 20:30 schrieb Thomas Hertweck:
Anders Johansson wrote:
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After thinking about this a few minutes: how about gathering all the software tools in Software Management. System Update could become something like "File->Select all available updates" and online update could become "File->Fetch security patches" and installation sources could become Settings->Sources. That way there would only be one tool.
Would that be clearer?
Good question ;-) However, there are lots of changes in the package manager in beta4 (and maybe beta5) - let's have a look at them before discussing dinosaurs ;-)
[...] This could have another advantage: a user would be able to change the selection (instead of just upgrading everything), e.g. he could unselect a single package of 245 new KDE packages because that single package should not be installed ;-)
You can already do this with the "system update" as in 10.0 - just click "packages" and you will get the detailed list you know from "software management".
By the way, another feature that could be helpful in the software module (which I couldn't find in any release so far) is an "rpm --verify" command with an option to re-install "damaged" packages based on some criteria (e.g. package has "missing files"). I have had some filesystem problems lately and this RPM command and the re-installation of two packages solved my problems...
IIRC this is available in the "repair system" you can boot from CD/DVD, but: yes, this would really be an enhancement. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Möglicherweise laufe ich sogar mit fliegenden Fahnen von Gnome zu KDE über. Jedenfalls, bis sich das Gnome-Projekt dazu entschliesst, Nautilus durch /irgendwas/ zu ersetzen. Notfalls eine Parkuhr oder einen Bratenwender. Aber nicht dieses.... "Ding". [Ratti in suse-linux]