On Wednesday 27 November 2002 05:17, daniel beck wrote: > rpmdrake and urpmi is really a nice add value. Its > allmost the main raison, why I use mandrake . There > are a few things, I thing, that could be nice to > implement > > > - the pop pups from rpmdrake are after all not *so* > bad, and they are in fact easy to understand. but, > then downloading softare from plf, there are allways > lots of poppups, and I must stay in front of the > monitor, and allway click : yes, I want to install (I > know, its because I didn't downloaded the key...). But > would be nice to have a : " yes for all" button. Just "rpmdrake --no-verify-rpm". "rpmdrake --help" should give you the options. But when, o when, will they finally learn? Why not put some "Not verify RPMs" button INTO THE GUI? Why not back EACH command line option ( there are not many ) with some GUI configuration dialog? > > - then I update software from cooker, and one package > failed, I have to start all again. Ok, its nice that > the package are stored in /var/cache, but it would be > even nicer if, then i download 2 softare A and B, and > the download from software A fails, Software B has > nothing to do with A (no dependencies), that urpmi > installs Software A
Completely right here. And more : - urpmi supports --force and --allow-force options, which do just what you requested - ignore non-existing packages, and ignore dependencies. When will this be supported in rpmdrake? Both in command line options and in GUI? - if the download failed because of, say, overloaded FTP mirror and user decides not to continue, all the packages are erased and the selection list is reset. Go click all the packages anew. - "FTP access denied. Continue without or cancel?" What the hell? And why not "Retry some more times" or "Retry infinitely" too? - Package downloading progress is shown in some nice graphical progress window, why the source update progress is still shown in the console, its failures and all that? When will they learn that in case of GUI, output to the console is an EXCEPTION rather than a rule? And what if the user runs rpmdrake from the menu and not from a terminal? There would be no immediately visible console in that case. When will they understand that GUI is to EASE work, not to harden it? And why do I personally recently prefer pure urpmi ? Because of such underdeveloped GUIs. > > - I want to be able to acces with urpmi mirrors, which > are protected with username/passwort (or does that > already work?) > > ook, bye ! > > daniel > > __________________________________________________________________ > > Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de > M�chten Sie mit einem Gru� antworten? http://grusskarten.yahoo.de -- Regards, Alex Chudnovsky e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 35559910
