On 24/12/2017 23:23, Ken Brown wrote:
Currently the libsolv version of setup silently installs added
dependencies. The user gets a chance to review them first only if
libsolv finds problems and has to display the prerequisite page.
I'm not sure if this was a deliberate design decision, though I
personally like it. On the other hand, I suspect that some users
won't like it because they're used to seeing a report about missing
dependencies. So I think we should make this behavior optional.
Yeah. Ideally we'd show what we're going to do, before we do it.
This is a bit more complex than before, as the solver might decide to
remove or upgrade packages, rather than just install extra ones.
The attached patch is a start in that direction. But it needs a
followup patch to implement the mechanism for selecting the option.
One possibility is a checkbox on the chooser page, which then gets
saved in setup.rc as a user option. Are there other suggestions?
But, somewhat confused by this. Isn't this just going to show the
(empty) problem report?