[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #11405: Package manager: available packages not listed
- From: "stippi" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:09:56 -0000
#11405: Package manager: available packages not listed
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Reporter: vidrep | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/HaikuDepot | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by stippi):
Replying to [comment:3 vidrep]:
>
> The architecture is x86.
> I have not installed any of the featured packages - only the base
install.
> When both "show available packages" and "show installed packages" are
selected in options, it shows both active and available packages, which is
as it was before the latest changes.
Yes.
> However, when only "show available packages" is selected, the list is
empty - no available packages or featured packages. Shouldn't it show all
currently installed packages, as it did before?
Well, when "Show installed packages" is ''not checked'', it should ''not
show'' currently installed packages. It should show available packages
only. However, do you think it is useful to show hundreds, in the future
thousands, of available packages in a list view? The recent changes have
the purpose to reduce what HaikuDepot initially shows to something useful.
Now, I agree, an empty list of "featured packages" is not useful. I am
just trying to make you understand what the recent changes try to
accomplish.
> How about three selections in the options list - "Available packages",
"featured packages" and "installed packages", with "featured packages" as
the default listing when opening package manager?
No, I don't want the user to have to configure showing available packages.
The featured packages ''automatically'' shows search results from all
available packages as soon as you change search parameters (category,
depot, search terms).
We just need to figure out why the list is empty for you (it may also be
caching related) and then we can think about what behaviour would be more
useful than showing an empty list, in case there really are no featured
packages to recommend on start up.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11405#comment:4>
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