On Friday 17 October 2003 12:37, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Many new machines now come without floppy disks. >
Yeah, my home made PC's don't have floppys (except for the server). > > Yes; usually use the CD myself. But none the less this is really not > > acceptable. 9.2 has too many stupid problems, from no screensavers in > > KDE, > > Mine work. Isn't this just a symptom of the rpm/update-menus issue? > Mine now work, but I've updated to cooker packages. The problem I experienced was that the ScreenSavers module was trying to list /usr/share/applnk-mdk.hidden/ScreenSavers rather than /usr/share/applnk-mdk./hidden/ScreenSavers > > broken urpmi > > Actually, I need to file another bug on urpmi, I think --distrib isn't > working (even for a CD medium). > > > and now this. The list is just growing day by day. > > That's natural. > True, but many of the problems are really silly. I really do believe that a longer freeze/bug fix period is necessary for better quality releases. As this is almost certainly the case, cooker should be forked long before releases are due, and only bug fixes, and essential security fixes allowed. > Of course, it would be nice to have it working by default, but Ron > always goes overboard on his small niggles in the first two weeks of a > release (he could have tested this in the beta series of course ...). > Well its easy to get upset, then post. Better to let it sink in overnight, and post in the morning. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
