Michael Vogt a écrit :
Yes, it is the "opposite" of the "generate download script" menu
item. Stuff that was downloaded with such a script can be added with
that menu item (in fact anything that is availalbe in the current
authenticated Packages list can be added this way if it passes the
md5sum check).
I agree that in this perspective, the role of "Add downloaded packages"
is rather obvious. I'm not sure why I missed the relation.
IMHO the function of this item is not clear. As it's not documented, I
would expect users to assume that "Add downloaded packages" could
replace a "dpkg -i foo.deb" for, say, packages not in Debian downloaded
manually. Unfortunately, synaptic simply ignores these packages
discretely throwing a "Can't find pkg foo" on console, and doesn't give
any feedback (such as "0 upgrade packages found, 2 unknown packages
ignored").
What do you think about the following two tooltips to the buttons:
+"Generate a shell script so that you can download
the selected packages on a different computer"
+"Add packages downloaded with the 'Generate package download
script' option to the system
I didn't realize that you could add tooltips to menu items. Without
looking at the result, I can only say that IMHO tooltips aren't the best
source of documentation. But mentioning that "Add downloaded packages"
is complementary to "Generate package download script" (feature, rather
than option?) would definitely disambiguate the role of "Add downloaded
packages", and I trust you that your proposition must make sense.
Thanks
