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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110521/221170f7/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110521/221170f7/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a1de6f443 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110521/221170f7/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +dear buddies,<br>I have talked about it earlier and the reply was there at <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/mageia-discuss@mageia.org/msg03742.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/mageia-discuss@mageia.org/msg03742.html</a><br> +cheers.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/21 Ahmad Samir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahmadsamir3891@gmail.com">ahmadsamir3891@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> +<div class="im">On 21 May 2011 23:59, Dale Huckeby <<a href="mailto:spock@evansville.net">spock@evansville.net</a>> wrote:<br> +> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:<br> +><br> +>> On 21 May 2011 21:46, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati<br> +>> <<a href="mailto:renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org">renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org</a>> wrote:<br> +>>><br> +>>> Will there be some such thing in place when Mageia is finally launched ?<br> +>>><br> +>><br> +>> No, simply because there's no need for a tool like that; easyurpmi was<br> +>> mainly used by Mandriva users to add the PLF repos, in Mageia PLF is<br> +>> replaced by the Tainted repo, which is added (but disabled) by<br> +>> default.<br> +><br> +> Simply no need? Maybe I'm misreading you or missing something but this comes<br> +> across as really arrogant in presuming what others (not you!) do or don't<br> +> need,<br> +> and how and why people have "mainly" used easyurpmi in the past. How do you<br> +> know?<br> +<br> +</div>I know about the "main" use case of easyurpmi, from 2-3years of daily<br> +visits to the Mandriva forum, search for easyurpmi and see if the word<br> +"PLF" won't be in the same thread in a lot of cases.<br> +<div class="im"><br> +> Was there a poll that I didn't get included in? I've always found<br> +> easyurpmi very convenient and not just for plf. I guess I didn't realize how<br> +> atypical I was.<br> +><br> +<br> +</div>Whether you're typical or atypical, I leave that to you.<br> +<br> +Using easyurpmi to just add the official repositories in Mandriva is<br> +an "atypical" use case, not the regular/main use case, given the fact<br> +there's already an integrated, installed by default, tool to do the<br> +job.<br> +<br> +Sure, it's good to have an easy way to add the repos on a headless<br> +server, but I think users running headless servers are cli-savvy<br> +enough to know how to use urpmi.addmedia, (with help of<br> +<a href="http://mirrors.mageia.org/distrib" target="_blank">http://mirrors.mageia.org/distrib</a><span onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000);" onmouseover="WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':-1,'weight':-1},'flags':{},'ttl':3600,'expireTime':'20110521215302'}, this.className);" class="wrc0" style="padding-right: 16px; width: 16px; height: 16px;"></span> , it becomes a matter of<br> + +copy/paste).<br> +<br> +> Dale Huckeby<br> +><br> +<br> +--<br> +<font color="#888888">Ahmad Samir<br> +</font></blockquote></div><br> |