> as the development team of the smart package manager is getting ready to > release smart 0.42 shortly, I would like to ask everyone who is using > smart on SUSE Linux to help testing.
I'm afraid I'm running out of time to spend on this. See my previous comments on this list for starters. Then add: * The handling of repository types and repository locations is not independent. Some types can only be fetched from some locations. * Auto-detection of repository type is lousy, with output of what it is expected to find too short. Also, type "bunch of rpm files" should always work as a fallback. It doesn't. * The main smart window and its pop-up window sometimes look stone dead, no input accepted. Confusing, until one finds that clicking the main smart window to the foreground brings the pop-up on top, but leaves the second-level pop-up right at the bottom of the pile of desktop windows. * I can see no way to tell it to only install X, and Y of the currently available updates, but not the other 20. I prefer to be in control when I want to. * There is no obvious "tell me what you're gonna do" if I click on something potentialy desastrous, like the "go for it" button. * It needs to handle patch and delta rpms. * Log windows can extend way below the bottom of the screen, no scroll bar, and resizing is disabled. At least the "X"-off button at the top-right window corner still works... * A quick-launch icon-status thing for the KDE panel along the lines of susewatcher is essential. If 0.42 has it, make sure it works ;) * Personal preference, but I don't like the gnome look. * The package list needs to be optionally separate for packages from other repositories. Specifically, when I'm interested in vendor updates, I don't need to see the gazillion things already installed. For a quick updater prog, I like to see: the updates currently available for packages I have installed, and all the updates available, including those not appliccable and those already installed, suitably marked. I stay with my earlier opinion that if smart wants to deserve its name, it needs to get rather better than it is now. It's better than a proof-of-concept, but doesn't reach "SUSE standard". Mind you, SUSE doesn't currently reach its own standard either *vbg* Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
