On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Aschwin Marsman wrote:
> > >> 1. It doesn't show me what version I already have installed (as Synaptic
> > >> and Aptitude do). To me this is somewhat of a "deal breaker"... this
> > >> really needs to be included in Smart-gui to make it useful/usable.
> > >
> > > I don't understand. Could you please provide a screenshot or a more
> > > detailed "how to reproduce"? Which "view" are you using in smart-gui?
> >
> > I'm thinking in terms of how Synaptic (or Aptitude) presents the
> > information about installed applications.
> >
> > If I filter the view so I just see upgradable packages, I'm shown two
> > columns... Package and Version. What does this tell me? The version
> > available or the version installed? It doesn't say (although from my
> > own experience it looks like it's showing the available version).
> > Also... assuming it's showing the available version, I can't easily see
> > what version I already have installed (in fact, I can't see any obvious
> > way at all to find out what version is already installed for those
> > packages that are flagged as upgradable).
> >
> > Look at how Synaptic presents the same info... Package, Installed
> > Version, Available version. It's this installed vs repository version
> > comparison I'm missing. I would hazard a guess that a lot of other
> > people will be missing that same info....
>
> I like smart a lot (use it every day) but I miss the same info: I sometimes
> do a
> rpm -q <package> to find this info...
Alright, I'll take this to Gustavo.
Regards
Christoph
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