On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:12 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Kevin Dupuy wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 22:29 +0000, not disclosed wrote: > >>> For the love of all that is good and holy about our mailing list... WILL > >>> YOU PLEASE TAKE THIS INCESSANT BITCHING to the Beagle mailing list??? > >>> I'm tired of a) this constant repetition of an old thread when not all > >>> of us have a problem, yet it is taking up half the mailing list messages > >>> on a daily basis lately and b) all it does is just encourage Aaron to > >>> whine on and on and we get filled with delayed delivery messages from > >>> his woe-be-gone messaging system. > >>> > >>> Tired of this nonsense already. Move on or take action where it is > >>> appropriate already people! > >> It is not a beagle issue - it is a SUSE packaging issue, we all know what > >> beagle does > >> and how it performs - for a huge number of people it is a huge pain in the > >> arse. Dropping > >> it from the distro would be popular, making it optional would be much more > >> popular. > >> > >> My opinion it is a crappy solution to a non existent problem, if people > >> want it let them > >> opt in rahter than forcing everyone else to opt out. > >> > >> If there was a survey for things people removed within 1 week of > >> installing SUSE then > >> beagle would probably be number 1 or number 2 and that makes it a prime > >> candidate > >> for dropping from the default install. > > > > If you're having these problems it is a bug and it IS A BEAGLE ISSUE! > > What is it you are thinking when you say it is a SUSE issue... Desktop > > Search is the future, any desktop user or tech journalist will tell you > > Just like the Ford Pinto's high-mileage feature, complete > with exploding gas tank. > > Sorry, deal-killers are not features, no matter how much > happy-gigggle shit comes with them. > > > that. A non-existent problem? TO you maybe. If you keep your filesystem > > absolutely spotless, then you may not need it, but you're also about 1% > > of all computer users. > > And until Beagle is reasonably bug-free, then it should > NOT be part of the standard installation. Especially > packaged in such a way that the package manage indicates > errors if you try to opt-out of Beagle at install time. > > Currently, Beagle is a bug-ridden pile of crap, which > should NOT be part of the default install. > > Version 0.2 implies something VERY different from 0.9... > namely, that it ain't ready for prime time. > > Seriously...the Linux kernel hit a high reliability > status sooner than Beagle ... US Army, Bosnia was using > a Linux box in 1996, by which time it had an uptime of > over 450 days. > > Which means that it had been up, without rebooting, > since 1994. > > How old is beagle now..and it's STILL falling into > infinite loops. I don't care what the reason is, > every time it does, it's due to a bug. And it really > doesn't matter if it's because Microsoft has a closed > file format for MS office documents... if Beagle isn't > ready to handle office documents, and falls into an > infinite loop because of it... and the devs KNOW > this... then for normal users, .doc files should > be SKIPPED by default, until beagle can scan those > files without going berserk. > > New users generally HAVE to store .doc files sent to > them by Windows users... which sets up the user for > a VERY bad experience -- which will not be blamed on > beagle's inept behavior, but on Linux as a whole. > > > > > > The users that would not know how to opt in would be the prime > > candidates for who would use Beagle, those like yourself who would know > > how to opt out are more likely not to use it. > > Beagle is NOT READY > > I say again: > > NOT > > READY > > File A Bug.
That's the last time I'm responding to this thread. -Kevin. -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happy New Year from Yo.media! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
