On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:14:18PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote: > In general, I would expect to operate primarily on packages; while some > facets (do I want locale XX, do I want man pages, etc) would be highly > visible, others (like the printing examples) would be enabled by package > installation. Perhaps that's an inconsistency people would find confusing, > or more confusing than fully making facets a first-class interface?
Most users will be happy to deal with high level presentations with relatively few items to choose from. Some users will want lots of detail. We get to aggregate things somewhat, though it will be a matter of judgement to get the aggregations right. High-level presentation: - pkg clusters that are appropriate for presentation to users that want little detail - facets that are appropriate for presentation..., or, rather, pks that enable facets. Perhaps facets shouldn't be presented to users outright, but instead choices of pkgs that enable facets. - pkg (and facet?) categories (from pkg metadata) Low-level presentation: - all pkgs - all facets How are the UIs to know which pkgs/facets belonw in the high-level presentation? Probably through pkg metadata. (Of course, ideally we'd have a single printing system that works for everyone. But that doesn't mean that this problem of cluster/facet selection shouldn't be solved -- we're bound to see situations like this one come up again.) > - If we get to turn on most facets by installing packages, then we don't > have to come up with a sophisticated interface for facets right from > the start. Exactly. Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
