Comment 8 for bug 273049
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| davide (davide-del-vento) wrote Re: update-manager should guest an estimative of upgrade size to prevent running out of free disk | #8 |
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(Get the code!)
Clearly you are not reading what I wrote in the first place. I understand that you might be busy and you might have things more important than this bug, but in such a case please leave it alone, and please don't try to guess what people mean without carefully reading what they wrote.
I wrote:
> It should possible to easily select/sort packages from
> their "status" (recommended or security) and size
> (after install, not just download).
At present users are supposed to do this by themselves, which is fine on a fully-fledged disk installation (just leave the default "all is selected" and confirm), but it is impossible to manage on a USB-key casper installations.
If the process cannot be automatic for the reasons you mentioned, then there must be at least an option to sort packages per various criteria (e.g. recommended, security, size) and let the user bulk-select and bulk-deselect them (e.g. with CTRL and SHIFT clicking). Individual package selection as it is now it's unacceptable for the scenario I'm describing, i.e. a USB-key casper installations.
Now, I'm fine if you say that you don't care about this problem and you don't WANT to fix it, and you close the bug with this statement.
However you cannot state that this bug is non-existent and that the system already takes care of this problem, because it does not. More than that! It does make it very hard for the users to take care of the problem themselves.