On 8/6/2010 5:18 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 6 17:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
Why not present as much info as possible? I don't know what "libkate"
is but it would be nice to be able to satisfy my curiousity on that page
rather than jumping to a web page and googling.
Well, that's ok. But I don't think it's important to learn where the
dependency comes from.
I disagree. Many times (not just on cygwin, but other platforms too) I
update a bunch of (installed) packages, or install a group of new ones,
and the "hey, I'm going to install these dependencies now" page pops up.
And I think, "Geez, what the heck requires that I install the whole TeX
distribution!! Maybe I'll rethink installing that package..."
It's a minor issue though. If you wanted to be REALLY clever, you could
(re)structure the page as:
libao version 1.0.0-1
(libao's sdesc)
libao-devel version 1.0.0-1
(libao-devel's sdesc)
But set a tooltip on each entry that identifies the package whose
requires: are causing it to be installed (or, in the case of multiple,
the first of those packages).
Or do nothing. :-)
--
Chuck
