Bug 447976

Summary:	General Yast Settings
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Sebastian Furdal <sfurdal>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	dmacvicar, kkaempf, wm
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	yass-01-packages.png yass-02-repositories.png yass-03-connection.png

Description Sebastian Furdal 2008-11-22 19:55:33 UTC

I am using SUSE since 7.x and love YAST. But it lacks one simple thing – CONFIGURATION SETTINGS (IMHO).

See the screenshots.

TABS:

1. PACKAGES:
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a) Do not show packages contains:
---- currently YAST2 have this option, but its to simple ;)




2) REPOSITORIES
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a) Up to date
---- this feature increase running speed of „yast2 sw_single” ( specially when there is to many repositories)

b) Automatically import GPG Keys
---- fetching many community repositories at once requires users „watchfulness” ; ) … click „import, … import, … import and so on”

c) ”When fetching list of "Community Repository" download also all users list
----I guess downloading it takes ages, but for some people its much useful to use directly yast2

3) CONNECTION

a) When download fails automatically:
---- this option is for upgrading whole system at night – I was so frustrated when i woke up and sow 5% of the installation progress.

b) Download limit rate:
---- its for people with less than a 1Mb connection. When I am upgrading the system I am unable to use the internet.

This are just ideas. Sorry for my English.

Comment 1 Sebastian Furdal 2008-11-22 19:56:21 UTC

Created attachment 254558 [details]
yass-01-packages.png

Comment 2 Sebastian Furdal 2008-11-22 19:56:43 UTC

Created attachment 254559 [details]
yass-02-repositories.png

Comment 3 Sebastian Furdal 2008-11-22 19:56:59 UTC

Created attachment 254560 [details]
yass-03-connection.png

Comment 4 Jan Kupec 2008-11-24 16:01:31 UTC

Hi Sebastian! Thanx for the ideas. Indeed, package management has a lot of options that could/should be configurable. In fact there have been a lot of request to have configuration file for zypper as well; your request is similar. Reassigning to YaST's Software Manager maintainer to investigate further.

Comment 5 Ladislav Slezák 2008-11-25 17:25:14 UTC

... and finally the ASK_AGAIN option should be there (bnc#431854 and the big thread on factory@opensuse.org ML)

Comment 6 Willem Meens 2008-12-04 10:57:38 UTC

Not intended to break in..

Along the lines of the request:  as additional setting it would be nice it you can set to use the qt or gtk interface.
I think this is mainly interesting for the software management module.

Cheers,
 Wj

Comment 7 Ladislav Slezák 2009-04-09 06:57:44 UTC

To the original description: The majority of the features are available in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf file. There is no GUI, only manual config is possible now.

Automatic GPG key import is a bad thing from security point of view IMO, but there is a feature request for importing more keys at once (when adding several repositories).

To comment #6: see WANTED_GUI option in /etc/sysconfig/yast2, or you can explicitly start the package manager using "yast2 --qt sw_single" or "yast2 --gtk sw_single" command.

So almost all options can be configured now, but there is no GUI yet.

Comment 8 Ladislav Slezák 2010-10-05 17:52:47 UTC

Sorry, I have no time for this change, resolving as WONTFIX.

(The expert settings can be configured manually anyway.)