Dedoimedo on MXPI

[Adrian]

Did a bit more testing and indeed the behavior is funny. Checked kmail in popular, then 0ad in stable, went back to popular, found kmail checked, back in stable 0ad not checked.

Checked that again, went to test, checked aldo, went back to stable, 0ad unchecked, went to popular, kmail still checked, back to test, aldo unchecked.

Popular tab use a different object to hold info, all the other tabs: stable, test, backports reuse the object so they need to reset stuff when they display the table. Frankly I'm perfectly fine with that, MXPI started with one tab, a way to install "popular apps", the rest is extra that I added because I could and some people found useful.

Again, I don't understand how people expect an app that was written in a week to have the features of Synaptic or other program managers. It's NOT meant to replace and package manager and I mean it. What's next, complaining that mx-viewer is not a great browser?

[radonrose]

Again, I don't understand how people expect an app that was written in a week to have the features of Synaptic or other program managers.

That being said, I love its simplicity (geekiness?), and the temporary enabling of repositories. What was the preferred way of installing test packages and debian backports before MXPI? Did users have to set up repositories on a per-package basis?

[dolphin_oracle]

Again, I don't understand how people expect an app that was written in a week to have the features of Synaptic or other program managers.

That being said, I love its simplicity (geekiness?), and the temporary enabling of repositories. What was the preferred way of installing test packages and debian backports before MXPI? Did users have to set up repositories on a per-package basis?

the preferred way was to enable the repo, update sources, install thing, disable repo, update sources. which is what the tab does now.

doing it manually is fine, but their were a large number of users that did dist-upgrades with the test repo enabled and that can cause issues. its less of an issue these days because of some changes in the way the test repo works on the server side, but I still consider leaving the test repo disabled as best practice.

[Eadwine Rose]

Did a bit more testing and indeed the behavior is funny. Checked kmail in popular, then 0ad in stable, went back to popular, found kmail checked, back in stable 0ad not checked.

Checked that again, went to test, checked aldo, went back to stable, 0ad unchecked, went to popular, kmail still checked, back to test, aldo unchecked.

Popular tab use a different object to hold info, all the other tabs: stable, test, backports reuse the object so they need to reset stuff when they display the table. Frankly I'm perfectly fine with that, MXPI started with one tab, a way to install "popular apps", the rest is extra that I added because I could and some people found useful.

Again, I don't understand how people expect an app that was written in a week to have the features of Synaptic or other program managers. It's NOT meant to replace and package manager and I mean it. What's next, complaining that mx-viewer is not a great browser?

Oh I'm not complaining. Was just checking to see what the poster above me had seen.

It works fine for me, so.. *shrug* I don't care, I like it :)