On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 20:09 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 21:03 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I had a quick look at dnfdragora since I hadn't heard of it before
Rex
> > > mentioned it (I normally just run dnf from the command line). Two
> > > things struck me:
> > >
> > > * No way to see what packages depend on the one you're looking at.
> >
> > If you try to remove the package, it will tell you. And Discover cannot tell
> > you this at all.
>
> If it will tell you when you try to remove the package, then clearly it
> can give this information.
>
The information is solved just-in-time as the query is sent.
dnfdragora just gives you what dnf tells it.
I never imagined otherwise. However dnf can run in test mode, which
would appear to be the obvious way to deal with this.
> > > * No way to resize panes to see more descriptive text
and less of the
> > > package list.
> >
> > Discover does not have such panes to begin with.
>
> The main window is divided into a number of regions, all of fixed size,
> i.e. the borders between these regions cannot be moved. Only the main
> window itself is resizable. This is poor UI design.
>
The code is on GitHub, feel free to contribute a fix:
https://github.com/manatools/dnfdragora
Not interested. As I said, I don't use any of these tools. I was simply
commenting on a couple of aspects that struck me when I looked at this
one.
poc