Re: [Synaptic-devel] Suggestion : display package recommandations

[Guillaume Pratte]

Le 22 Avril 2004 09:46, Renate a écrit :
> Am Do, den 22.04.2004 um 12:24 Uhr +0200 schrieb Michael Vogt:
> > Well, you can have a look at the gtk/window_changes.glade dialog as a
> > starting point. We could make it look like this:
> >
> > +-----------------------------+
> > | !  Mark required changes    |
> > +-----------------------------+
> > |        <changes>            |
> > +-----------------------------+
> > | Additional interessting pks |
> > +-----------------------------+
> > | Recommends: foo        [ ]  |
> > | Suggests: bar          [ ]  |
> > +-----------------------------+
> > |              |Cancel|  |Ok| |
> > +-----------------------------+
>
> I don't think that this is a so good idea. If a recommended package
> requires is marked for installation and also requires addition package,
> what would happen? Popup another "mark required changes" dialog? This
> could end in quite a mess of dialogs.

Very good point.

> But I cannot provide another solution at the moment. The only that I
> could think of was to add a general "suggestion are dependencies" in the
> preferences.

I would not personnally use such a feature. Suggestions are suggestions, and 
sometimes, suggestions can be quite "fancy". For instance, the kdevelop 
package suggests quite a big list of packages, but do you really need kpaint, 
kiconedit and kbabel to do development?

> At the moment there is also the possibility to install suggested or
> recommended packages via the dependencies tab. Perhaps we should stick
> with this.

I was not aware of this feature, I will look into it.

Guillaume Pratte