<mvo> mpt_: that is possible and should not cause too much grief, but it
will require some magic to ensure that its always consistent depending
with the running transcations and the ones that got canceled in between
etc
So let's assume we can show live information, on a package screen, about
which other packages will need to be installed for a given package.
Now, you've figured out two steps of the gap between your mockups (and
what PackageKit shows) and solving your original problem: (1) the person
needs to know what a dependency is, and (2) the Store needs to know
which of the packages have already been downloaded. But there's one more
important step missing: (3) the actual amount of disk space involved!
It's all very well listing 20 dependencies, but if they're only 100 KB
each that doesn't matter; whereas if there's only one dependency but
it's 850 MB, that might matter a bit more. So showing the list of
dependencies doesn't actually solve the problem, unless you're the sort
of person who is familiar with the approximate file sizes of all the
dependent packages.
So the package screen could say, for example, something like:
Installing will take up 57 MB disk space, leaving 9.5 GB free for
other programs and documents.
Or if you have /home on a separate partition, something like:
Installing will take up 57 MB disk space, leaving 4.2 GB free for
other programs and system files.
Probably that text could be tweaked to be shorter, and probably it
should look more like a warning if you're going to be left with hardly
any space, and so on. But the important point here is that we don't even
need to list the dependencies to solve the problem. There might be other
problems for which listing the dependencies is a solution, but I suggest
addressing those in separate bug reports. Does that seem reasonable?
--
No information about dependencies being pulled in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432879
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
