On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 02:13:46 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:23, Olivier Blin wrote:
>> > > All other thinkpad's I have heard of do very well, most
>> > > users I have encountered had no problems enabling acpi, all NTFS resizes
>> > > I have done worked fine. Most users probably also miss the
>> > > thinkpad-specific features in contrib, such as tpb, and in cooker they
>> > > will probably miss tpctl and tp4utils.
>> > 
>> > I don't think he knows what contrib is. 
>> 
>> Lots of Mandrake users don't know what are contrib and plf.
>> It would be good to show a description of contrib or plf at the end of the install 
>> or at the first boot in Mandrake, and ask the user if he want to run urpmi.setup to 
>> add more media and so have more packages.
>> We could also tell users that it is safer to install packages from contrib or plf 
>> than from other sources because they are tested by lots of user.
> 
> I'm surprised no-one's replied to this. Olivier, Mandrakesoft couldn't
> possibly link to PLF in any official way whatsoever, because the whole
> point of PLF is it has no official links with Mandrakesoft and is not a
> Mandrakesoft endeavour. This is because it includes stuff - principally
> dvdcss, but other stuff too - that could potentially get any substantial
> company involved in distributing it into *extremely* deep shit. So the
> chances of a PLF link / info during install are somewhere between
> non-existent and really, really non-existent :). Info on contrib would
> be a good idea, though.

PLF, what it PLF ? I've never heared of it :))

-- 
Frederic Crozat
MandrakeSoft


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