On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 01:25 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > >> My initial idea was to input and use the mirror list _only_ if the > >> mirror list checkbox was chosen and otherwise use the baseurl. However > >> this does not consider the case where the .repo file looks like: > > > Okay, this makes some sense. Although we could just have that handled > > under the covers and still let you just select between mirror url and a > > baseurl. But that would get a little weird switching between them I > > guess. I still think you're going to want to allow a radio button > > between the two. Because you can also disable the baseurl (in fact, > > that's the default config). Maybe we just make the baseurl and the > > mirror url both handled like the gpg key above. > > Disabling the baseurl is a default config for the Fedora repositories, > and may not be so for custom distributed file:// based repositories or > some ad-hoc http:// or ftp:// repository created by a developer or an > organization. > > If we look at it from a higher level of abstraction what are the most > basic things needed to get a repository working? A repo id, a name and > a baseurl come to mind. Fully agreed. But we're wanting to use the same sort of interface for editing as adding (because there's lots of win there). And given _that_, we don't want to necessarily hide what the defaults are. Otherwise, I'd be in 100% agreement with you. Maybe the thing to do is to go the route you're saying, but just look and auto-expand if a mirror list or gpg key is set. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
