pirut aggravations

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Fri Apr 14 17:20:12 UTC 2006


So I'm spending about a man-day of my quality time klicking on
these pirut package checkboxes (while all I need is the install-everything 
button, or at least meaningful selectable package clusters which aren't
mutex on dependencies -- there are not very much such clusters, btw).

Turnaround time of an update is some 10-15 minutes.

I try to do one letter of the alphabet at a time. I'm
not succeeding, though, see below.

Startup time is an eternity. The damn thing should cache,
and only refresh from the depositories, if explicitly 
asked to by user. I'm not sure it's deleting already downloaded packages
by default as some others have reported -- if it does
that, it shouldn't.

Clicking on checkboxes takes forever to register.
Athlon 64 2 GHz with nVidia accelerated drivers might be
not a speed demon, but this is just unacceptable. 

Unchecking boxes when there's a conflict doesn't
result in a rollback. This is a *major bug*. It
requires me to memorize the conflicts, and quit
and restart the package from scratch. This is 
by far the biggest baddest bug in pirut, so 
it needs fixing first.

The conflicts are frequently inconsistent on restarts.
Whether this is due to package mirror inconsistencies,
it should not be my problem.

When you're done, pirut just quits. So I have to wait
another 10 min for a new startup. Wrong behaviour, please
fix.

If this wasn't for above behaviour (which totally drives
me up the wall), it would be a totally sweet tool.

-- 
Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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