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FS#13040 - Give description of packages when selecting them for install

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Devin Cofer (Ranguvar) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 20:18 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Saturday, 18 December 2010, 21:48 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.01-beta
Due in Version 2011.01.whatever
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 6
Private No

Details

Not sure if it does this on the 'core' CD. On the 'ftp' CD (beta2), when selecting packages, there is no facility to quickly see the description of that package. IMHO the description files in the core.db.tar.gz archive that the CD must download to see the names of the packages should also be used, and the installer should give version numbers and descriptions if you press a key on a package.

This seems fairly simple, and would save (at least me) a fair amount of time when I'm figuring out how much cruft I can remove from the install :)
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 21:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Saturday, 14 February 2009, 14:55 GMT
Makes sense. With dialog (the ncurses dialog we use) I don't think you can press a key to get a popup for a package. I'll investigate.
Maybe we could print a (cut-off) version of the description next to each package.
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Saturday, 18 December 2010, 21:48 GMT
implemented in git.
now, when hovering over a package, in the bottom you'll see:
<pkgname> <pkgver> : <pkgdesc>

to try it out, grab a testbuild from http://build.archlinux.org/isos/

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