After many days of struggling with yumex code I finally managed to add a nifty feature to it. With this fix, yumex shows the version difference for an update in bold font.
I find this very useful to quickly determine if an update is a major upgrade or not. In the above example, rosegarden is a major upgrade, while qt4-x11 is a minor one.
I am posting the patch here, since the yumex website seems to be rather sparse and ill-maintained. This patch is against the 2.0.3 release. (more…)