On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:

> * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should
>   have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM
>   to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled packages - and
>   consequently rebuild URPMI updates if need be.
> 

Of course optimisation is not necessarily worthwhile, so I think correctly 
packaging software which *does* take advantage of optimisations would be 
better.

But a build-from-source tool would be good. But I don't think it shoulld 
be restricted to building from SRPM. It should also allow building from 
Mandrake CVS if yuo have the original sources ...


> * A working MS-DOS emulator.
> 

Didn't dosbox go into contrib just after release?

> * RDesktop.

On CD1 in 9.1 

> * Documentation on how to submit stuff like ISP details for the internet
>   Drake thingy.
> 

First, it would be nice if drakconnect would allow you to configure a 
dialup connection *after* a LAN connection (I think this is not possible 
at present), for people who need winmodem drivers before they can 
configure a dialup ... (or am I missing something?).

But ISP details need to be completed, I remember Mandrakesoft asking for 
this information around 8.0!

>   Two aspects, one which could be profitably built into Konqueror as a
>   protocol server (e.g. doc://name) which searches likely spots
>   (man-pages, info, /usr/share/doc/name-*/*, KDE handbooks etc) and
>   presents a short menu of likely-useful documentation for the
>   command/file/whatever.

You mean man:, info: and locate: aren't enough?

BTW, I was very impressed by the new context help (button) in the 
drakxtools!

Here are some of mine:

1)ACL support in the mainstream file managers. How long have we had ACLs 
for? It's still easier to manage them from windows!

2)Split authentication stuff in DrakX into a drakxtool, but design for 
more complex settings (such as setting up pam_smbpass so when you change 
your unix password, your samba password is changed also)

3)samba3 final ;-)

4)ifstatus support for more cards

5)Thinkpad drivers in the kernel package (nplanel, is there anything more 
I can do?), after which I will upload tpctl ..

6)Configurable update-source in install (we don't have net access without 
a special interactive program, but we have an internal updates mirror)

7)GUI-tools support for writing DVDs

Can't think of any more ...

Regards,
Buchan

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