dear buddies, I have talked about it earlier and the reply was there at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03742.html cheers.
2011/5/21 Ahmad Samir <[email protected]> > On 21 May 2011 23:59, Dale Huckeby <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote: > > > >> On 21 May 2011 21:46, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Will there be some such thing in place when Mageia is finally launched > ? > >>> > >> > >> No, simply because there's no need for a tool like that; easyurpmi was > >> mainly used by Mandriva users to add the PLF repos, in Mageia PLF is > >> replaced by the Tainted repo, which is added (but disabled) by > >> default. > > > > Simply no need? Maybe I'm misreading you or missing something but this > comes > > across as really arrogant in presuming what others (not you!) do or don't > > need, > > and how and why people have "mainly" used easyurpmi in the past. How do > you > > know? > > I know about the "main" use case of easyurpmi, from 2-3years of daily > visits to the Mandriva forum, search for easyurpmi and see if the word > "PLF" won't be in the same thread in a lot of cases. > > > Was there a poll that I didn't get included in? I've always found > > easyurpmi very convenient and not just for plf. I guess I didn't realize > how > > atypical I was. > > > > Whether you're typical or atypical, I leave that to you. > > Using easyurpmi to just add the official repositories in Mandriva is > an "atypical" use case, not the regular/main use case, given the fact > there's already an integrated, installed by default, tool to do the > job. > > Sure, it's good to have an easy way to add the repos on a headless > server, but I think users running headless servers are cli-savvy > enough to know how to use urpmi.addmedia, (with help of > http://mirrors.mageia.org/distrib , it becomes a matter of > copy/paste). > > > Dale Huckeby > > > > -- > Ahmad Samir >
