Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Op donderdag 02-04-2009 om 11:42 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Martin Olsson: > The algorithm should focus on keeping both the network and the > CPU/HDD at the highest possible utilization rate at all times. This is extremely difficult to (pre-)calculate, because it's dependent on CPU speed, hard

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Op donderdag 02-04-2009 om 11:42 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Martin Olsson: > The "new updates available" screen doesn't tell the user which ones are > critical/security > updates. They are in a different section already, I think? (But jaunty has no real security updates, I guess.) > Populari

Open source survey

Dear open source developers, I am Eunyoung Chung, a Masters student working with Dr. Jensen at Oregon State University. We are currently doing a research project in collaboration with Dr. Truong and Ph.D student Koji Yatani at University of Toronto. Our goal is to understand how contributors comm

Re: Removing gnome-pilot from default install

On Thursday 02 April 2009 1:55:17 pm Åskar Andersson wrote: > > Hi, > > As many of you might have seen there is a thread about removing gnome-pilot from the default install (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7001020). I brought this up here back when I mentioned doing so on the bug. You

Removing gnome-pilot from default install

Hi, As many of you might have seen there is a thread about removing gnome-pilot from the default install (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7001020). There is also a brainstormidea about this on 900 votes and rising (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ideatorrent/idea/3844) Finally I created

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Martin Olsson wrote: > Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> If you download and install everything that has 0 dependencies first, >> then the ones that depend on those things, and on up the tree, it could >> be doable. Except for cyclical dependencies. For those, you'd need to get >> both downloaded before

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 3:34:06 pm Derek Broughton wrote: >> No, he means "install" some packages while others are still downloading. >> I can see that being very advantageous to a dial-up user, but I wonder if >> it can even be possible. > > If you download and ins

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

One wishlist idea I have is that updates can be installed without having to provide a password. Installing updates must be as easy as possible, because I often see that icon in other people's notification area, with hundreds of updates available. They just don't really care. Remco -- Ubuntu-deve

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > We have not made any decisions about whether this program would be based > on PackageKit, Add/Remove Applications, Synaptic, or something else, or > written from scratch. We should first design what it will do and how it > will behave, then work out how to implement it.

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > If you download and install everything that has 0 dependencies first, then > the > ones that depend on those things, and on up the tree, it could be doable. > Except for cyclical dependencies. For those, you'd need to get both > downloaded > before running dpkg on the

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan wrote on 01/04/09 22:21: > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas > wrote: >... >>> The front end would display two progress bars, one for download and >>> one for installation. >> >> Hopefully that isn

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote on 01/04/09 21:24: > > Sorry but I do not understand you. > > Why do you want to create new applications and not to improve and > adopt PackageKit? We have not made any decisions about whether this program would be based on P