On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:13:59PM -0800, Brock Pytlik wrote: <snip>
> From a user's perspective, I think I rarely care which repo a package comes > from. Sure, I want that information available if I ask for it, but I don't > want that to interfere with me finding a package or installing it. I bring > this up now b/c I think this changeset takes us farther away from that > perspective. If I've understood this set correctly, it's further separating > the repo information which may make it harder to implement a unified view > in the future. I have to agree with Brock. It's going to make it difficult for users to find packages if they have to flip through every authority when they go looking for a particular package. We ought to be able to have a unified view of the package namespace. The CLI handles this problem by retrieving from the preferred authority if multiple packages have the same name and the requested FMRI was ambiguous. Otherwise the user must specify. However, the GUI doesn't need to be this anal. In the case where two packages have the same name, prefer the preferred authority. Otherwise prompt the user to choose. Eventually, we may have a system of ranked preference. However, splitting the packages up by repo is simply going to make it harder for the user to find what he or she is looking for. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
