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

[Robin Norwood]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:41:14 +0100
Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

I haven't looked specifically, but I think we would have to do the same.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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