On 16 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > I think the vast majority of those cases are not happening > because those applications are so large they don't get unnoticed > by the user (e.g. whe mozilla/xmms/etc is installed, it's > difficult to miss it in the menus). > > > It would be better that rpmdrake also show already-installed software, > > maybe greyed out or with a mention "this software is already installed > > on your machine". > > No, it's a long time decision. > > Though, this can lead to an interesting idea: when doing a search > and nothing is found, I might add a special dialog when some > already installed software match, right. > Please do so. Anything. I am so tired of again and again answering questions of people about this. I think although the interface has become easier, the inability to search installed/not-installed at the same time pissed of a lot of users. I actually have gotten emails of people who want me to join a coalition against current rpmdrake because of this.
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