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Bug 58174 - RFE: better distro scoring for Preferences -> rating
RFE: better distro scoring for Preferences -> rating
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnorpm
Classification: Deprecated
Component: rpmfind
0.96
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Alan
Alan
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-07-27 15:39 UTC by Alexander Larsson
Modified: 2012-02-19 16:33 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alexander Larsson 2001-07-27 15:39:38 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
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-02-19 16:33:07 UTC
According to http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/gnorpm/ this application is unmaintained since 1999. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.