Some Pup/Pirut suggestions

[dragoran]

dragoran wrote:
> Hello
> Here are some things in pup/pirut that (in my opinon) needs some 
> improvement:
> 1)Make them somehow threaded...
> The gui sometime does not respond or even redraw when some "huge work" 
> is done in the background (even on a dual opteron box).Would spiltind 
> the gui from the backend stuff into seperate thread help? the gui can 
> be updated / rewdrawn while the other thread is doing the work.
> 2)Why does pirut close itself after it has done a task? for pup its ok 
> to be closed after it has completed updates but pirut? After 
> installing an app sometime I want to delete an other one or install a 
> second one. I know that I can select many tasks at once but I see no 
> reason why pirut should close it self.
> 3)Pup should show more info on updates like description a "normal" 
> user may get confused by just seeing a name like hal, dbus or libXX. 
> If pup could somehow show a description of what this package are this 
> would be solved.
>
any comments?