[packagekit] Update viewer - show all packages, or...?

Sebastian Heinlein glatzor at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 26 22:41:14 PST 2008


Am Dienstag, den 26.02.2008, 17:19 -0500 schrieb Robin Norwood:
> Hi,
> 
> I was chatting with Jeremy Katz today, and he pointed out one place
> where pk-update-viewer is lacking - it's model is based upon showing
> Packages to update.  pup shows (basically) the source package name.
> This makes a lot of sense, since you'll almost never want to update one
> of the packages which come from a source package but not the others
> (the ones that are installed, anyway).
> 
> What do you guys thing about filtering the updates list something like
> this?

As stated in an earlier mail I am for simplifying the list.

Does yum support source package descriptions? For Debian/Ubuntu we would
have to use the description of one of the binary packages.

Cheers,

Sebastian
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