On Friday 20 June 2003 08:02 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > Forward to Cooker. I did it again. > > On Friday 20 June 2003 12:38 am, w9ya wrote: > > Well the issues you are talking about : "package management" and "query" > > have little to nothing to do with the actual installation process in ANY > > operating system from a user's standpoint. So.... > > > > I think the real issue we have been talking about is NOT installation at > > all. But the rpm-drake stuff tries to BOTH install AND manage packages > > without a clear understanding that a user *would* think it is too hard to > > install linux programs when the gui tools are not made clean and easy for > > him to use. > > This is your opinion, not a fact, but your opinion that I and others > disagree with. It may be supported by some anecdotal evidence, but that > does not change the fact that it is an opinion. No one, including you and > LX have done any market research that has any kind of validity to it that > says a result, one way or another. LX's beef, from what I gather, isn't so > much abour rpmdrake as it is about Mandrake Developers not listening to the > votes of Club members.
The parameters that I gathered my evidence under are this: user feedback to me.. To a large extent this is their opinions. Alot of users found the older rpmdrake easier to use. They had specific issues with a number of things in the new rpmdrake. I shared this with this the cooker community at large. I hope you are not discounting their opinions in any way. That could be counter-productive. > > Since I am in no position to influence the developer's, and not able to > assist in the developement of any changes, I need to spend my time on other > more valuable (to me) issues, so I am officially dropping out of this > conversation. Um, well o.k. For me, it might be a long time before I share any other user feedback. This has been a disagreeable endeavor for me. Perhaps it is the way I was made to feel defensive about the info I shared ? Bob Finch
