Description of problem: It would be nice if there were buttons to "Deselct All" and "Select All" on pup. Occasionally there are literally hundreds of updates. For one reason of another I (or anyone else) may only want to update one ot two items, perhaps because of dependancy problems. Right now you have to manually uncheck (perhaps hundreds) of updates, one by one. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
If there are hundreds of updates (outside the realm of the development tree), then that is a different problem. Select all/deselect all is just working around the real problem.
From this response I can assume you are refusing to add this, although you gave a very obtuse response. Therefore you'd better not be surprised if people don't use pup and use things like commandline yum and or yumex instead.
>If there are hundreds of updates (outside the realm of the development tree), >then that is a different problem. Or just normal behaviour on first pup run after an install when it has been some time since the major release... Give us at least the select none capability, then if we are mentally (memory) challenged, we may still be able to use pup to (eventually) get all the updates installed. It also saves time because the time taken to resolve seems to be considerably reduced (it appears to me much much less than it takes to do all updates at once). People might also want to choose just the security updates !
Another point to consider: on a machine with limited disk space (or limited disk space in the yum cache location), having to do the gamut at once when there is lots of updates (especially kernel/openoffice/kde/eclipse/java) could fill the disk, resulting instead to being unable to perform any updates in a nice GUI way.
Moving component to pirut. Sorry for the spam.
Even though this was closed wont fix, there have been a few additions to pup that allow you to workaround this to achieve the same. 1. click the first package 2. shift click the last package 3. right click one of the packages 4. unselect all ! Either this came accidentally through gtk updates etc, or it was decided that it is a usfeul function, but that only technical people should be able to do it ;)