Come on! We're talking about the "UNSUPPORTED" directory, right? What part of
"unsupported" do you not understand"?
One of the big benefits of the Linux Mandrake distribution is that we _get_
updates like these! If things are a bit messy, then it's probably because the
folks who normally tend to these things are working hard on 8.0.
In the case of more than one version of a given package, it's not _that_
difficult to identify the later and decide which you want to use. And no one
is forcing you to download 2.0.1 if you'd rather download 2.1 final.
What's the big deal?
M.
On Saturday 10 March 2001 19:27, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Keeper of the unsupported tree,
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> 1. Please identify yourself.
>
> Things appear to be in an almighty mess, and have been for many, many
> days.
>
> Here's what's wrong:
>
> 2. Duplicate products, with the following earlier versions not
> deleted:
>
> unsupported/i586/SDL-1.1.6-1.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/SDL-devel-1.1.6-1.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/cups-1.1.5-3mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/gnapster-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/kernel-2.2.17-21mdk.2.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/kernel-doc-2.2.17-21mdk.2.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/kernel-headers-2.2.17-21mdk.2.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/kernel-source-2.2.17-21mdk.2.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/kernel-utils-2.2.17-21mdk.2.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/libfltk1-1.0.10-1mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/libfltk1-devel-1.0.10-1mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/libqt2-2.2.3-8mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/libqt2-devel-2.2.3-8mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/qt2-Xt-2.2.3-8mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/qt2-designer-2.2.3-8mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/tar-1.13.19-2mdk.i586.rpm
> unsupported/i586/xpp-0.7-2mdk.i586.rpm
>
> The presence of these fossils makes automatic upgrading, and hence
> proper dependency resolution, impossible.
>
> 3. Fossil KDE 2.0.1 is still present, serving no useful prurpose
> since it has been obsoleted by now-fossil KDE 2.1 Beta 1, now-fossil
> KDE 2.1 Beta 2 and now KDE2.1 final. KDE 2.2 Beta 1 RPMs are due
> out on 26 Mar - these will need another subdirectory.
--
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
