[pacman-dev] [RFC] New member selection when installing group

[Allan McRae]

On 05/11/10 07:43, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>>
>> My general impression of this is that it is really, really good and a great
>> improvement over what we have now or had in the past.   Here are relatively
>> minor comments:
>>
>> The "Enter a number" selection prompt is a bit weirdly worded when using
>> e.g. "1-10 ^8".  Maybe "Enter selection" instead?
>>
>
> That sounds better.
>
>> If the "selected 1" output is to stay (is it?), it should maybe say
>> "selected<pkg>" instead?
>>
>> Also, using "1-10 ^8" says "selected 8... unselected 8".  If that output is
>> to say, I guess that should just say "unselected 8" maybe?
>>
>
> This was just meant to be a debug output for early testing / experimenting.
> I wanted to kill it if the idea was accepted.

OK, that makes sense.  You might want to keep it in the --debug output, 
at least until it is widely tested.

>> Doing a "pacman -S base --needed" processes the --needed after the selection
>> dialog which is annoying... is that easily changed?  It does not matter if
>> not.
>>
>
> Ah uhm right.
> Here is how it works now :
> 1) alpm_find_grp_pkgs gives to the frontend a list of sync packages,
> members of a specified group
> 2) interactive selection in frontend
> 3) alpm_add_pkg called on each package, where the --needed check is
> done (this means checking for existing local package and comparing
> versions)
>
> It's definitely possible to add needed check in the backend in 1) or
> in the frontend just before 2).
> Not sure where it would fit, I will let others decide that and I can
> then implement it if needed (no pun intended).

I am really torn between front and backend implementation of this...  I 
think I am leaning towards backend.

Allan