On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:29:01 +0100 Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[lots snipped] > On Sunday 16 March 2003 00:28, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > > That's plain wrong thinking... if Mdk wants to limit their sales to > > just those who test/run Cooker, I might agree... BUT... they want to > > sell as much as they can, and they really have no way of telling how > > people will use the distro. If there are some applications that won't > > even *start*, what does that say for Mdk QA??? After all, the distro > > is named "Mandrake Linux", not "Linux By A Rag-tag Bunch of > > Cooker/Wannabe Testers Who Didn't Have the Time or Inclination to Test > > All the Applications: Good Luck!"... > > > > If you are long enoushould know that it can running flawless and do not > even start on another machine. So testing on some given machines would > not mean it does work for you. (for whatever reason) That is why you > should test it if you want have running it. So the statement you are > doing is not valid. Why do some people insist on replying, just to make some orthogonal, ephemeral points? I am talking about PROGRAMS THAT WILL *NOT* RUN ON ***ANY*** MACHINE BECAUSE THEY HAVE *NOT* BEEN COMPILED OR LINKED PROPERLY(PERIOD)! > as stated above . What is needed is a good bugreport from you. And it got IGNORED! Not just once... All that was left to do was to rebuild the RPM *correctly* and release it as an UPDATE... > > For 9.0, I reported it, was even blamed for building it wrong, pointed > > out I just installed it, got the impression it would be fixed, not! > > > > You wouldn't be blamed for building it wrong if you are reporting it to > cooker. Reporting it to cooker is what is needed. Right... on a RELEASED distro... oh, phooey... just go read the archives from shortly after 9.0 was released. > Invalid statement. They don't put not working apps in mandrake, the only > thing is they can't know if it is working for you. BUT THEY ***CAN*** KNOW IF IT WON'T WORK FOR *ANYONE*!!! NO????? <SIGH>
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