Bug 241937

Summary:	Feature request: display dependency chain in anaconda
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ronny Fischer <ronny.fischer>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	mmahut, sukru
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Description Ronny Fischer 2007-05-31 20:20:36 UTC

Description of problem:
Feature Request:

Anaconda is unable to display dependencies when installing Fedora with custom 
checked or unchecked packages. This would be very helpful. I would like to see 
something like the Mandriva installer displays what packages are needed/erased 
in case of checking/unchecking packages at the installation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Anacondo (no specific version)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a custom Fedora with anaconda
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Actual results:
unchecked packages appear because of dependencies

Expected results:
when unchecking packages at the installation display a message of what packages 
will be affected to be erased in this case

Additional info:

I believe the installer of Mandriva Linux shows messages of what packages will 
be erased when removing a package from the standard installation. Something 
like this would be great.

Comment 1 Sukru TIKVES 2007-05-31 22:09:03 UTC

Even a simple (flat) list would suffice, yes this feature would be really nice 
to have.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-06-04 17:52:53 UTC

Computing this on the fly (which is required, given the fact that you can add
repos including updates, etc) is extremely expensive and would introduce a lot
of lag.  Not to mention it's terrible UI design.

Comment 3 Sukru TIKVES 2007-06-04 18:18:38 UTC

Ok, I'm really shocked to see WONT_FIX for a small feature request this soon, 
but I cannot say it was not expected (I guess that's the general attitude here).

However I do not believe that the above reasons are enough to justify that 
resolution.

First of all, even if the option would be "slow", you could always make 
it "optional" (i.e: shown only when requested by clicking a button).

Additionally, YUM already needs to build this information, anyway. (It will 
install those dependencies, right?) I know, because command line YUM already 
does that (e.g: Installing 10 new packages [y/N]: ). Pirut that that too. It 
shall not be that difficult to display a list of strings on the screen 
organized as a tree via GTK+ (yet I'm no GTK+ programmer)

Finally, several other distributions already does that. So we know it can be 
done.

Please reopen the bug as LOW / CONFIRMED or similar, so that someone with 
enough time could implemented it.