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Re: Setup - Hiding ZZZRemovedPackages?
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:37:07PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>IMO it's less visual clutter just to show the category than to add a
>>checkbox.
>>
>>Automatically unhide it if the user has anything other than the current
>>version of any of the packages?
>
>The problem with that is:
>
>- The 'category' columns are made artifically wide to fit the text
>'ZZZRemovedPackages' and '_PostInstallLast' which are wider than any
>actual category names.
>
>- In all the views except the category one, the dummy packages are
>intermixed with real packages.
>
>I have a version that I've been testing that removes these two
>categories from view, and it really does make things a lot less
>cluttered.
How about if we just adopt a convention of making categories which begin
with '_' invisible? We could move ZZZRemovedPackages to just
_RemovedPackages for that case.
cgf