GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 58174
RFE: better distro scoring for Preferences -> rating
Last modified: 2012-02-19 16:33:07 UTC
Start gnorpm, select preferences -> distributions. Distribution settings (at least as listed) are unaware of platform and distro release, and include 6.1, pwertools, CPAN, what have you. Numeric rating field is pure mechanism, providing insufficient policy to sort the myriad sources of sources. I'd suggest a list of generated per-arch regex's, numeric rating collapsed into order of supplied regex's, 1st regex *always* being essentially config.guess output. One might consider separate container classes for 1) Raw Hide, Cooker, etc (i.e. bleeding edge) 2) Distros 3) Powertools vs (what Mandrake calls it) 4) CPAN and the ability to configurably extend the container classes. Rationale is that mix-n-match sources for rpm downloads is increasingly a crap shoot between distro's and even between releases, so the goal should be less far and wide discovery of candidates, rather more targeted information delivery to user. Note: This bug was moved here from the redhat bugzilla athttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20053
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