David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since someone finally seems to be on top of the urpmi problems, the most recent
> Mandrake Community Newsletter (I stopped receiving this by email for some
> reason, but I read it on http://www.linuxtoday.com/) had a review of urpmi vs.
> apt-get.
>
> One of the things the reviewer mentioned, and I agree, is that the syntax for
> urpmi.addmedia is unintelligible. I suggest two things.
>
> 1. Can it not require the english word 'with' as part of the arguments. This is
> very confusing, not to mention the URL syntax itself.
It has been kept for compability with older version.
> 2. Why can't update sites be listed in a simple .conf text file? Also why should
> I have to provide the depslist in addition to the URL? It should assume that the
> directory tree follows standard naming convention (all I have ever seen do
> this), and therefore it should be able to find the depslist from the base URL,
> instead of me having to remember not only the URL for the site, but the exact
> path for the depslist.
Idem as above, /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg is compatible with older version too.
> Thoughts?
We have to find a more correct way to organize data of urpmi, yes this can be
nice. But before trying to break compability I tried to keep it while adding
features but there could be some changes to do.
Fran�ois.
