On 22.05.2011 02:56, Michael scherer wrote: > - the code could have been much better. Olivier wrote it and he was not a php > coder, and > neither is Phillipe, the current maintainer. I think that the translation > system is > primitive and prone to problem. No one seemed to be motivated to rewrite, > despites > people fixing various problem.
Hey, I thought I rewrote it :p .. or maybe it was too recent (2008) to be counted. (while I admit it is not as good as it could be, at least it is much better than it used to be) > - the core of the system was still "here is a website that a new user cannot > find by > itself, that will give command that he doesn't understand, and that he need > to type as root, > after asking question that didn't made much sense for him". That's bad on > many levels : > - difficult to find for a new user. > - asking to type command as root first, and later "click on a link in your > browser and type after your > admin password", which is IMHO quite bad from giving wrong habits to people. > - asking lots of questions, ( fixed later by using a simplified mode, that > use rpmdrake or > that fail silently ) +1 for these. > Since the discoverability issue should be fixed by simply having tainted > disabled by default and maybe > some popup whatever to enable it, I see no reason to suffer from the others > problems ( > bad habits, power struggle ). People can install a clone of easyurpmi if they > want, but I will > oppose on having it on our servers, on having anything like this labelled as > official, and > would recommend to people to not deploy it. Maybe have a page that explains on how to use e.g. '''Open "configure media sources for install and update" -> File -> Add a specific media mirror''' as pointed by Ahmad (in addition to the default "add" which adds mirrorlist medias). I for one didn't know this option even existed... -- Anssi Hannula
