On Friday 18 October 2002 16:08, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> On 2002.10.18 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> >Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> On a slight side note, the fact that rpmdrake stops downloading while it
> >> waits for you to decide to continue given a bad or non-existent gpg key
> >> should definately be changed. The number of popups could be drastically
> >> reduced just by doing the gpg check at the end of the downloads, and
> >> could be placed in one dialog box with check boxes next to each package
> >> with a bad sig allowing you to choose which ones you still want to
> >> install, if any.
> >
> >I put that in my todo. It sounds reasonable, logical, and good
> >for people using it like you. If there is no technical problem,
> >I'll do it.
>
> An idea: the common dialog+progress bar could be integrated in a
> GtkStatusBar in the bottom of the window, and you get rid of the popup
> window most used allthe time.
>
> And an option something like '--unattended' would be nice: install what you
> can, if some pgk fails don't install it nor anything that depends on it.
> So you can start the update, go back in 2 hours and see what happened
> (I know, urpmi supports something like this, but it requires to update
> _everything_, not just select a bunch of packages)

The only problem with having that sort of thing be changed by a command line 
option is that you really have to know what you're doing (open a console and 
run the command with a --help) to get to these options. I guess I just don't 
agree with having a graphical program have settings that can only be modified 
non-graphically, especially since if you run the program from the control 
center the command line options can't be altered.
-Elliott

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