On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:09, Carlos López wrote: > Hi all, I agree with Kernowyon about the mail client should be installed > out-of-the-box. I have also detected something in the repository: there are > some packages not well enough described, I mean, the summary and > description fields aren't as good as they could be. This is something that > although could looks a subtle detail, it might be quite annonying for the > final user. Imagine you are an unexperienced desktop Linux user and want > to install Kmail, so you open smart-gui and write kmail in the search box. > Then you press enter and get nothing => Yoper doesn't have kmail => what > kinda distro is this! => go out from from my disk right now!! > > However, if you put good documentation in packages, these kind of > situations won't happend since the smart-gui search engine also takes into > account the description field. So, please bear this detail in mind. The > best place where you can get good documentation for packages are their own > home sites. There you have good overviews or summaries about what packages > do. You don't have to type a single characters most of the times! Just copy > and paste! In spite of it, KDE packages should include the name of the > programs they content; no more words are needed to justify this, hopefully. > > You know what? Yoper rocks! ;-) >
Yep, we had this issue with the old 2.1 rpms - every one was described as a binary rpm for Yoper - and that was it! Not very useful for users. I know it was mainly down to the pressure Andreas was under to populate the repos and he didn't have time to add fancy descriptions, but it really does help to add something relevant so the user can search for things they really want. I managed to build an rpm today with mach :) I even managed to rebuild the src.rpm and now have my very own diy rpm for something ;) I am sure it sucks - it is my first (well, second - I did make one a year or so ago with Tobias helping me), but I am happy to let one of you guys look at it and explain how to tidy it up a bit :) Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list [email protected] https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
