On 23 Oct 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> That counts, but I don't agree with the axiom "because users want
> it, we do it". Sometimes we don't agree and we don't do it. I
> have to agree to do it.
I was taking a rather severe stance. Ofcourse you have a free will, but I 
think you are not as free as a gernal OSS developer because you work for 
mandrake.

> 
> It wasn't an example, or I didn't understand it.
Think you looked at the wrong mail. I was talking about MTA example. In 
short: I search for program doing X, I search in descriptions for X, but I 
have to use 2 different programs to check whether I already have one, and 
if not, to see what the options are. 

 > > If the point was really to have "some way of searching for a 
> package when I don't know if it is installed or not", I
yes, or a description/file.

> personally do "rpm -qa package*", people can do it with rpmdrake
> or rpmdrake-remove I suppose?
It is one "concept": looking for package X. It is silly to use 2 programs 
for it.
> 
> It would be quite easy to add it to the code of the installing
> package version, but the main problem is how does it integrate
> with the UI? If you can provide a good design I do agree with,
> I'll add it. 
I agree.
>A good design requires that we don't add any other
> visible UI element.
That sounds strange. How to add a feature without UI element? 
Or do you mean it has to be kinda hidden (like the search 
description/names button)

Danny



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