On 24 May 2011 04:10, Anssi Hannula <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
I added it to the mdv wiki[1] about 1-2years ago. [1]http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software#Adding_a_specific_Media_Mirror I am not sure if this page got imported in the Mageia wiki or not (probably not yet). -- Ahmad Samir
