[packagekit] comand-not-found annoyances

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 08:05:42 PDT 2009


2009/10/2 Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>:
> In Fedora, people frequently complain that the command-not-found bash
> plugin is annoying,  because it keeps downloading file lists, which
> takes far too long for an interactive task like command completion.
> For this, we should really just take whatever filelist we have and
> ignore their age.

Right, this fits very well into the out-of-band hints thing I've been
working on, so a client can tell the backend essentially, "prefer
speed over accuracy" and not get the latest lists in this case, even
if they are old.

Richard.



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