[smart] [Smart Package Manager] #109: Simultaneously view installed and new package versions

[Smart Package Manager]

#109: Simultaneously view installed and new package versions
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       Id:  109          |      Status:  new                     
Component:  iface-gtk    |    Modified:  Wed Jun 22 09:44:12 2005
 Severity:  enhancement  |   Milestone:                          
 Priority:  normal       |     Version:                          
    Owner:  niemeyer     |    Reporter:  anonymous               
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 It would prove extremely beneficial to have an extra column in the GUI,
 showing installed versions of packages next to the version information of
 the selected package (as Synaptic does).

 Example (with SmartPM 0.36 on FC4):

 * Add channel "FC4 Extras", priority 10 ; install "easytag" (1.1-1@i386)

 ...

 * Add new channel "RPMforge Dries", priority 5

 * View > Tree Style > Channels , and have a look at the newly imported
 packages list from Dries

 * Select "easytag" (1.1-1.2.fc4.rf@i386), which is marked 'New' (yellow
 asterisk)


 * If one does not remember that easytag was already installed from "FC4
 Extras", the Dries version would overwrite the Extras version (regardless
 of the higher priority of Extras, I guess).

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 * Two unsatisfactory workarounds :

 - Execute 'Find' on "easytag" & 'Expand All', which shows all occurances,
 but this is unpractical/undoable if one wants to check tens of
 installations from a newly added channel ;

 - 'Tree Style > None', but then it is impossible to limit the scope to the
 newly added channel.

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 * Suggestion : extra column with installed version (and preferably,
 channel alias).



 (Actually, the Synaptic "New in Archive" & "Upgradable" looked actually
 more intuitive to me ; unfortunately, without priority management, mixing
 lots of repositories becomes unmanagable).

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