On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:51:14PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > The most important thing for me at this moment would be that I can use > > YaST also to download packages I install and that it make an installation > > source I can use. > > Why would this be usefull for a single machine? I understand that > somebody adminstrating lots of machines might like it.
There can be several reasons. First if you do an installation, then a deinstallation and later again an installation, you already have it. Secondly some people just like to have the RPMs that they download. My personal reason is the following. I install a system and add several repo's. Now if I install some programs' via a repo, YaST will see that it installs the missing RPMs as well. And here is what I do, I make a DVD to hand out and it is much nicer to have the sources already there on the DVD ready for installation. It might be that others have other reasons. Look at it in a logical way. You download the RPM anyway, so why not give the user the option to save the file he just downloaded. It should be optional and wether you want it on or off by default is another discussion. Let the user decide wether or not he wants it or not. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
