This time James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
becomes daring and writes:

> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:10, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>> Helge Hielscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> > -rpmdrake:
>> > *proxy configuration is not easy and is not explained in the help
>> > file (how to use a ftp and an http proxy?)
>> 
>> Well I don't know myself very much on how to use both types of
>> proxies :).
>> 
>> I guess this feature is, first, for experts and second, I need
>> suggestions and tests by users to ameliorate it.
>> 
>> > *the UI is sometimes very slow
>> > *difficult to add a cooker source (there need to be some help
>> > with synthesis/hdlist)
>> 
>> The list of cooker sources has been deliberately removed because
>> people used to use cooker for "updating their packages", that
>> leading with broken systems.
>
> Two questions here.
>
>  1. Doesn't this violate the GPL

   No

>  2. Don't try to protect people from themselves, it only causes ill
> will.

  Uhm...when I noticed they had done this, I didn't think they were
  protecting people from themselves...I thought "smart guys, they are
  protecting whoever has to deal with tech support"...try to deal with
  a user that broke his box by using cooker as an "update" media
  without knowing what cooker really is.

  Vox

-- 
Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs.  Kind
of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
technology than everyone else.       -- Donald B. Marti Jr.

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