On Monday 11 November 2002 06:43 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Wim Horst wrote:
>> I didnt succeed with urpmi because you have to tell it where to search
>> for hdlist which is called syntesysblablabla. I am not clearvoyant and
>> didnt know this. And why should i know this. It is something the
>> program could do.
Important point. The program _could_ do it, so unles it's unduly complex or
risk, it _should_ do it.
>> We are talking here about those little annoying things that make
>> windows users say linux sucks.
> Any installation will setup the urpmi sources for the media it was
> installed from. Unfortunately, contrib does not get set up
> automatically
Yes, that was Wim's point.
> but it would have taken you much less than 2 hours to get
> a contrib source set up for urpmi. And the next time it would take much
> less time to install something.
True, but Win's original post was made for a different purpose, contained in
these two lines:
We are talking here about those little annoying things that make
windows users say linux sucks.
The WINE people are now doing stuff like taking the top downloads from Tucows,
installing them on a clean system and seeing if WINE does The Right Thing(tm)
with them.
If Mandrake wants to retain a reputation for ease of use, it will also need to
retain a propensity for making the tools do The Right Thing(tm) every time.
Cheers; Leon
