Dear Eeli,
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
May I make an appeal to frontend leads to please consider exposing the
new auto-discovery of remote repositories to their apps sooner than
other features?
It's indeed possible.
Thank you!
When I once tested the installmgr it just added the sources when there
where none defined before. How does it actually work - does it override
the old ones? It's of course a major bug if it does, because the user
may have private sources there which should not be overridden.
There is logic in the new 'sync' feature which attempts to only update
the entries it was responsible for adding. I believe it works as you hope.
What happens if a source is already defined? Most people have some
sources already there, and I think it's a bit stupid to add the same
source twice.
If the source has exactly the same name, it will be usurped by the
installmgr source. There will not be 2.
What happens if you add new ones manually, using the old system?
Should coexist.
Is it possible to add automatic sources selectively? Some people may not
like adding repositories which they don't use, especially if the
repository has only one commercial module. It would be good to be able
to select which sources to add to the frontend. For example, the user
clicks "Update the list of sources". Now the fronted could show a
dialog: "New sources available" with checkboxes. The user could choose
which sources to add. Is this supported in the engine?
No. I would suggest a hide/show option in the frontend. Hope this is
the same amount of UI work as presenting to the user a list of repos
that might be added and letting them choose, each time the 'sync' button
is pressed.
Hope this is mostly good news.
-Troy.
Yours,
Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
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