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jeroenv

Member

Registered: 2004-11-29

Posts: 36

Suggestion for 'Recent Updates'

I have a suggestion for the website designer of Archlinux:
Most packages (i.e. like 99% ?) are published for i686 and x86_64 at the same time (probably by the same maintainer). Yet everything is announced double on the frontpage of Archlinux. Wouldn't it be better to make a single announcement for any package and append for which platforms it was published?

So e.g. instead of:

packageA    i686
packageB    i686
packageB    x86_64
packageA    x86_64
packageC    i686
packageC    x86_64

alternative:

packageA    i686/x86_64
packageB    i686/x86_64
packageC    i686/x86_64
packageD    i686
packageE    i686/x86_64
packageF    i686/x86_64

So in the above example packageD for x86_64 apparently wasn't ready yet (i have yet to see this happening ).
Then a few days later, as soon as it's finished, just reannounce it as
packageD    i686/x86_64

This prevents everything from being announced twice in the same list.
It's less confusing and allows for more packages to be announced using the same space on the frontpage.
After all, frontpages are a special place on any website.

Last edited by jeroenv (2009-11-27 20:43:05)

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Suggestion for 'Recent Updates'

Check the bugtracker, and if it hasn't already been submitted, post the above as a feature request.

jeroenv

Member

Registered: 2004-11-29

Posts: 36

Re: Suggestion for 'Recent Updates'

Will do. Thanks.

sand_man

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Suggestion for 'Recent Updates'

I think something similar was suggested and the web developer more or less said he was too lazy

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