On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:53, Igor Izyumin wrote: > What do you do that you need to install, remove, and update packages all at > the same time? Typically, you need to either install, remove, or update > the programs, not do all 3 at the same time. The old interface was > incredibly confusing and slow; the new one is much better in my opinion.
Typically I used rpmdrake to gather informations about a certain package or file and to make decisions based on rpmdrake's output. Before, I could query the system about a certain package or specific file by name, description or file name. In a second I knew wether that package (or file) was installed or not; if it was installed then I could remove it, on the other hand if it wasn't installed I knew on what cd or other repository it was and then eventually decide to install it or not. This was very helpful while compiling software from source and discovering that I needed some obscure file to complete the compiling succesfully. Now I have to know these kind of information about packages beforehand, because I need to know beforehand what part of rpmdrake I have to call. It's frustrating to call something labelled "Remove Software" only to check if a package is installed on my system. If you want to keep rpmdrake this "sliced" way, fine. But please add a new section (the fifth one!), a "query packages database", one from where a user can get informations about a certain package or file such as if a package is installed (or not) and if not where he can find it. Then it would have much more sense to call the "Install packages" or "Remove packages" windows. Also putting small buttons or icons to switch between the different parts of rpmdrake would be very handy. This way it won't be necessary to got back to mcc or the K menu to call another part of the package manager (what a waste of clicks)... With this little improvements rpmdrake would stay pretty much as it is now (i.e. "sliced"), but with some of the "old style" commodities that used to make the 8.2 vesion very easy to use. PS: if there is someone here that's also subscribed to the cooker list (I'm not) that thinks that this or other mails about this topic could be interesting for developers working on 9.1, maybe he/her can forward these mails there. Take care, -- Piero Piutti ----------- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0
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