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1-click choosing wrong repo out of multiple possibilities

Open tguruswamy opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Some repos like KDE:Extra have multiple targets defined per distro, e.g.

KDE:Extra/KDE_Applications_openSUSE_Leap_15.2 vs KDE:Extra/openSUSE_Leap_15.2

software.o.o is choosing the first option for 15.2 one-clicks. Installing anything from KDE:Extra via software.o.o one-clicks is therefore highly likely to break your system.

Example https://software.opensuse.org/package/amarok

Perhaps a heuristic could be added, If there are multiple possibilities choose the one which depends on fewer additional repos. Or at least label the one-clicks correctly with the full repo name to show it is not appropriate for base 15.2.

tguruswamy avatar Sep 14 '20 15:09 tguruswamy

That's a good point, we are pretty naive in many cases when multiple options are available.

agraul avatar Oct 19 '20 18:10 agraul

Could we maybe display multiple options when they are available? We can't possibly know what is the correct one from the info we are given

hellcp avatar Mar 23 '22 23:03 hellcp