On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 01:20:41AM +0100, Dexter Morgan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 24 December 2010 00:13, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Op donderdag 23 december 2010 22:23:56 schreef Ahmad Samir: > >>> On 23 December 2010 22:01, Samuel Verschelde <sto...@laposte.net> wrote: > >>> > I remember some years ago you could choose the exact version of the > >>> > package for which you reported a bug, from a list. I agree that > >>> > improving the UI side helpers could be useful. > >>> > > >>> > Regards > >>> > > >>> > Samuel Verschelde > >>> > >>> As was said by dmorgan, listing each SRPM slowed down bugzilla a lot; > >>> the distro has a lot of SRPMS... > >> > >> an ajax search is better; it doesn't add much and only gets searched if you > >> enter at least 2 chars, or something like that. > >> > >> if such an ajax is wanted, i can write that if i can use app-mageia-db or > >> similar as a list. > >> > > > > If the user doesn't know how to find the package info (rpm -q > > packagname), no auto-complete is going to help much, he'll just pick > > one of them randomly (top of the list, or bottom of the list). It's > > not much to ask for rpm -q output... > > > > -- > > Ahmad Samir > > > > and this method is deprecated ( i mean the big list ) because this > slow down too much the server.
The server, or the the browser ? ( because server side, that's just a SQL query likely in cache, while browser side, you have to render a enormous 15 000 items list, with allocation of objects, etc, etc ). -- Michael Scherer