Martin Schlander wrote: > tirsdag 23 maj 2006 14:11 skrev Henne Vogelsang: > >> Everything else is working pretty flawlesly. Can we agree on that? >> >> This is bad but not unfixable. >> > > Flawlessly? I'm sorry but we can't agree on that. Those are easily the most > serious bugs - but there are a lot of smaller irritations - and though I'm > not a developer or a genius I'm a pretty experienced SUSE user I think - > what's irritating to me will be completely unacceptable and incomprehensible > to most noobs. > > Here's a quick list of issues that bother me - some of which have already > been > fed to bugzilla in beta-state. > > * there are serious problems with: right click on rpm > Open with Software > Installer / actions > Install package with YaST > > * you can't add a simple directory containing rpms as a source to yast - > which > was never a problem before > > * YaST gives no information when it's downloading or refreshing repodata > making inexperienced users think it's frozen. For inspiration on how to > handle this I would look at the smart -gui which tells you what's downloaded, > how much, from where, at what speed etc. > > * The issue with repos not being digitally signed. The warning message keeps > popping up - no matter how many times you tell it "don't show this message > agian". > > * Maybe this one is me being stupid - but if you have services added, but not > subscribed to - it seems to me that zen/rug still parses metadata for those. > And I've even had rug ask me for a cd when the cd catalog was unsubscribed > and factory added and subscribed to (it was during betas, but it's not fixed > yet). I thought that added / subscribed-unsubscribed were the equivalents to > added/activated-deactivated in yast - but that's not the case apparently. > > * Also you can't seem to have more instances of packagemanagement running - > don't know if this is intentional, and has to be this way. But it certainly > was no problem to have "installation souces" and "software management" open > at the same time in earlier releases, for example. > > * If you add sources to yast they're automatically added to zen/rug - but > this > doesn't work the other way around. > > I don't know what the long term strategy is - but if yast sw and zen are > supposed to coexist in the long run I'd like some kind of central > repo-management module in which you could add, remove, deactivate, refresh > etc. all the repos, with selections for all frontends. > >
Point is: in an open source world one takes the best solution available, e.g. for package management (and there are a few out there). Or you think you can develop a better one then you go for it. BUT always in mind to produce a solution for the community, not for a single vendor. So: the source is open, but not the mind. It just looks open source. FMF --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
