[Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

[Elliott Martin]

I have put off writing this email for quite some time because of the flak I'm sure to get, but here goes.

rpmdrake has been driving me nuts for months now because of one 'feature', that being the popup windows.

I'm not the greatest video game player in the world, but having these windows barge their way to the foreground all the time is definately not helping! And watching movies...what a great time to run an update, but no, rpmdrake will make you want to sit down and read a book instead. I would use urpmi, but hey, I dont like typing everything out all the time when --auto-select would update something I'm in the middle of using.

There are so many different ways to have the program behave that I have to ask for it to be changed. Why not use a wizard style interface (thus not telling me in a new window that everything worked)? That way it could ask about all the bad signatures at once at the end instead of halting the download until you come along to press, yes, install the thing anyway. I know, there's --no-verify-rpm, but I do want to know, but I'd like to be able to leave the room and come back when the downloads are done.

anyway, i think I made my point clear enough....
-Elliott