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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