Given the parameters for development (time and resources), the team and
community did a fantastic job on producing the installer and IPS
system. Given this community and the mail lists is all about people
contributing either in code, advice, testing or feeback and FLOSS
projects about getting stuff out quickly so you can try it and help
develop it further.
We should really refrain from calling the baby ugly. You are free to
think the baby is ugly, but it does not good to tell the mother.
Brad
MC wrote:
But last night I ran into more weirdness. I ran the Package Manager and tried to update my system.
To be honest here you went wrong because nobody warned you that the GUI package manager is a piece of crap. It never should have been shipped in the final product in the state that it is in. It is like a rope bridge tied to two sides of a valley made of tooth picks.
Obviously nobody wants to point that out, which is probably why you ended up unknowingly destroying your operating system.
I guess the real problem is that you were deceived into thinking that 2008.05 is more stable and user-friendly than it actually is. :) Think of 2008.05 as a beta and you will get a better impression of how risky it is to toy around with it.
Should I avoid those other repositories? Anyone have an idea why updating made the system unbootable?
IMHO the user-facing features of IPS/pkg are in such a dangerously unfinished state that you should only use them when following explicit instructions provided by the 2008.05 developers. Otherwise you are treading into untested waters. Which is cool if you want to be a tester.
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