On 12/5/2017 9:32 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
On 14/09/2017 21:46, Ken Brown wrote:
On 9/14/2017 1:26 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Ken Brown writes:
What I've been struggling with, however, is the UI. But now that I
think about it, maybe it isn't that hard. It's just a matter of doing
something reasonable if the user unchecks "Accept default problem
solutions". I'll see what I can come up with.
Well, zypper pretty much just gives you a bunch of possible solutions
and asks you to select one if there is either more than one or the
otherwise preferred solution is blocked by a lock. There is always one
"break <whatever> package by doing <stuff>" down that list. You could
maybe offer something along those lines in the inevitable dialog box?
In the long run I think that's the way to go. But implementing that
is more work than I feel like doing at the moment. For now I've gone
with an approach that was easier to program, more like the current
setup.exe. If the solver finds problems (including missing
dependencies), the user has four choices on the Prerequisite page:
1. Click Back to go back to the Chooser page, with the Pending view
showing the solver's default solutions.
2. Click Next to accept the default solutions.
Doing some testing of per-version requires, I've been looking at this
page quite a bit.
It seems we're missing something to actually apply the default solution,
so "accept default solutions" makes no changes, at the moment. (looks
like we have to do this ourselves with solver_take_solution() ?)
I'm not sure. I thought at some point I saw "accept default solutions"
do something, but there have been a lot of changes since then.
Also, in the dependency problem report, we should identify which of the
possible solutions is the default one, so it's clearer what "accept
default solutions" is going to do.
Agreed.
Ken