Re: Re: the new version

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:47:12PM +0200, Kimiko Koopman wrote:
> Some comments from me on the new version:
> - You still can't spell. It's _dependency_, not dependancy, and _possible_,
>   not possiable.

Was that a condescending tone or humor? I will take it as humor. Not much has
changed in my spelling abilities from 0.3.32 -> 1.0. So I answer 'yes'... I
_still_ can't spell. This is why the community is so great. Hopefully someone 
will help out where I lack, and submit patches and bug reports (as you did 
both) to help make GRAB a better package.

> - After upgrading some packages, GRAB always removes them, despite the
>   auto remove = no in the config file. I'd rather it didn't touch the
>   RPM cache at all, so I can adjust things manually if necessary.

Hrmm... Bug! Sorry about that. Looking forward to seeing how you _fixed_ it!

> - After I have selected which packages I want to be downloaded and
>   upgraded, GRAB takes a long time to do I don't know what. Maybe it's
>   getting info about the packages, or something else, but it looks as
>   though nothing is happening at all, unless you watch the network traffic.
>   Maybe you could add a nice progress indicator there?

You are right, this is network traffic. Unfortunately because GRAB does not
download from a specific repository that already has a dependancy database set
up, this will always be a problem. Also that traffic is being generated by
rpm, and you can turn it off with the option --nodeps (undocumented as of now),
or in the config file.

I am always entertaining other ideas of how to do this...

> - An ETA or speed readout would be nice too while GRAB is downloading stuff.
>   Just a precentage doesn't tell me much about how fast things are going.

hrmmm... technically this is just some simple math. I will see what I can do
but this is not high on the critical list.

BTW, I have to say this... its _percentage_ not precentage. (sorry, had to do
it!)

Thanks again,
Greg
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