On 24 December 2010 00:13, Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: > Op donderdag 23 december 2010 22:23:56 schreef Ahmad Samir: >> On 23 December 2010 22:01, Samuel Verschelde <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I remember some years ago you could choose the exact version of the >> > package for which you reported a bug, from a list. I agree that >> > improving the UI side helpers could be useful. >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Samuel Verschelde >> >> As was said by dmorgan, listing each SRPM slowed down bugzilla a lot; >> the distro has a lot of SRPMS... > > an ajax search is better; it doesn't add much and only gets searched if you > enter at least 2 chars, or something like that. > > if such an ajax is wanted, i can write that if i can use app-mageia-db or > similar as a list. >
If the user doesn't know how to find the package info (rpm -q packagname), no auto-complete is going to help much, he'll just pick one of them randomly (top of the list, or bottom of the list). It's not much to ask for rpm -q output... -- Ahmad Samir
