[Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Fri Jun 22 12:25:15 CEST 2012


AL13N skrev 21.6.2012 20:39:
> Op donderdag 21 juni 2012 17:36:58 schreef Thierry Vignaud:

>> End users do not know about urpmi.
>> They knows about mgaupdate which shows them updates and about
>> rpmdrake which shows everything.
>> Thy _ONLY_ way for them to get a backport package installed is to
>> manually select one.
>> Period.
>
> actually, that could change, i think it was stormi who proposed to adjust
> mgaapplet to handle "backports for end users".
>

I dont think we should even think of extending mgaapplet to cover 
backports at this point as we need to focus on fixing #2317 for 
release/updates first...

When that part is fixed and considered stable, we can think of
extending it to support backports...

--
Thomas



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