up2date failing dependencies window too big!!!

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Dan Tucny wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:57, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>The failing dependencies list today was so large that the dialog box
> >>>>that was created did not fit on my screen and I had to kill up2date.
> >>>>
> >>>>Would be nice that a dialog with list box would appear with the failing
> >>>>dependencies so that the window can be closed normally
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Have you fed bugzilla this info?
> >>>
> >>>Dan
> >>>
> >>
> >>Noop, not yet. I can do this, if people feel this should be done
> >
> >
> > Well, why not?  It's a bug (or at least an feature request).
> > Better sit there in bugzilla than to be forgotten.
> >
>
> I found it's already in Bugzilla since July 2001 See:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47800
>
> Too bad this has never been solved up till now. Priority has been
> assigned as low, but it's fairly easy to fix I would say

Unfortunately there are too many bugs in bugzilla that never get
fixed.  Any way to open things a bit more so that we dumb users
can fix trivial things?  Submitting patches is one step toward
that.  Maybe bugzilla should send list of inactive open bugs to
the list every night :D

> Jaap

behdad,
who is going to study after finishing this mail.