On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: > - Internationalization. gnome-apt strings are translated by gettext, > we already have a French translation from Vincent Renardias, but > strings from apt-pkg are not translated. Possible solutions > include using gettext in libapt-pkg, or having the apt-pkg strings > be "replaceable" somehow.
AFAIK gettext has issues with this. Apparently you are not supposed to put strings in libraries. Blah I say. > - Machine editing of sources.list Oh um, erm.. I guess so :| > - "Cancel" feature for download dialog This I think can be done easially.. I'd like to wait till I can test it thought.. > - For the Import/Export package list items, I'm not really sure what > the implementation involves. Maybe it will involve apt-pkg. > I haven't thought about it. I'm not sure what these were to do, wasn't it just a list of selected packages? > - I still haven't written the "extract list of sections" function, > perhaps this should be part of the cache? Not sure, it is fairly easy to generate from the current data - I guess it depends on what you are doing. > - gnome-apt is kind of a mess on handling multiple available versions. > I was noticing this with apt-get too - not sure how to downgrade > a package, or install a variant version. Yes, a function to se the available version is neede, along with something else but that I'm not sure of. > - I kind of feel that "Package Status" should be a library thing. > I randomly invented some status categories, but I think it would > make sense for apt-get and any future frontends to use the same ones. > This code (along with lots of other dubious code, often I don't > know what the hell I'm doing when I move out of gnome-land :-) can be > found in pkgutil.cc. What is Package Status? Jason
