Re: Pirut: Edit -> Repositories mock-up -- Part 3.

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

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