[Mageia-discuss] what aabout an automated way of doing it?

Fri Oct 29 04:12:49 CEST 2010

Dj Marian a écrit :
+> i´ve got mdv lxde... i was just saying that it would be great to make 
+> the program guess what the user wants to find, save what the user 
+> usually uses, and by that pattern the next time the user searches 
+> would find what he would be most likely looking for. And just in case 
+> he is not satisfied, a button to show more or less results.
+
+If you do an upgrade, it starts with all your existing applications.
+If you are doing a new install, of course you have to select the type of 
+install, etc.
+What isn't clear is on what basis a program would guess what you would 
+want ?
+It can't read your mind.
+If you do updates, only updates for packages already installed will be 
+offered.
+According to your selections, the updates offered could be security, 
+(other) correctives, (other) general updates, backports, or all updates.
+As well, whenever you select a package to install, by default all 
+dependant packages not already installed will be selected for install.  
+If for some reason the requested package or any of its dependancies is 
+not available, the install will abort.  Although this default could be 
+changed, it is highly inadvisable.
+How would Rpmdrake know that you want it to "guess" what you are looking 
+for, and how would that be any better than entering search text ?
+
+- André
+