[issue104] Improvement suggestions for the GUI

[Gustavo Niemeyer at Labix Tracker]

Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo at niemeyer.net> added the comment:

> Yes, you can see the installed version in the RPM pseudo-channel, but
> it's not useful when I'm in reporitory channel selecting upgrades (not
> to mention that when I'm selecting upgrades I probably don't have the
> tree style by channels).  Also, it's really hard to find all upgrades
> if I look at expanded tree (where installed packages are marked by
> color icons). So I'll have "hide non-upgrades" checked, and then
> installed RPMs are not shown at all. 

Perhaps they should be shown with that option. Humm..

> What I'd like to see is the second column:
> 
> gcc     4.0.2-1.fc4 4.0.1-3.fc4 <-- I have 4.0.1, 4.0.2-1 is available
> gcc     4.0.2-2.fc4 4.0.1-3.fc4 <-- I have 4.0.1, 4.0.2-2 is available
> gcc-c++ 4.0.2-1.fc4 <nothing>   <-- I don't have this package, 4.0.2-1 available
> gcc-c++ 4.0.2-2.fc4 <nothing>   <-- I don't have this package, 4.0.2-2 available

That one-to-one mapping doesn't work since you may have multiple
versions available *and* multiple versions installed with rpm. What
would be shown in the second column if you have 10 versions of gcc
installed in that machine? Yes, I'm exaggerating to show the point,
but having multiple versions for the same package is allowed with
rpm, and a common practice.

[...]

Sorry, I don't understand what 'both "-1" lines' means.

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