On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:09:29PM -0400, munehiro wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:50:13PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > There's one thing that kinda annoys me about MandrakeUpdate. I've chosen
> > some packages to be installed, and click on install. Now rpminst tells me,
> > that some other packages need to be installed to fulfill all requirements.
> >
> > But it does not say WHY these packages need to be installed.
> >
> > What I'd expect to see there is something like: these packages need to be
> > installed (list of packages). Clicking on a package should really show
> > which package that I've choosen to install requires another package to be
> > installed.
>
This has been forwarded to the rpminst maintainer.
> also, MandrakeUpdate should report the priority for the packages.
>
> A lot of upgrades are simply better implementations of the package, and
> some of them are security fixes. Having something like an icon which
> displays the effective need to upgrade can be useful. With a simple icon
> check, it becomes very simple to keep the system up-to-date against
> security flaws.
>
Actually, an icon is displayed to show the importance of an update. This
importance can be "bugfix", "security", "normal", and "cooker".
If importance is one of the first three, the reason to update is shown in
the changelog tabs.
> a small extract of the changelog for the package should be useful as
> well...
Changelog aren't in hdlist, which are big enough, imho.
DindinX
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