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Olivier wrote it and he was not a php coder, and +</I>>><i> neither is Phillipe, the current maintainer. I think that the translation system is +</I>>><i> primitive and prone to problem. No one seemed to be motivated to rewrite, despites +</I>>><i> people fixing various problem. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Hey, I thought I rewrote it :p +</I>><i> .. or maybe it was too recent (2008) to be counted. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> (while I admit it is not as good as it could be, at least it is much +</I>><i> better than it used to be) +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> - the core of the system was still "here is a website that a new user cannot find by +</I>>><i> itself, that will give command that he doesn't understand, and that he need to type as root, +</I>>><i> after asking question that didn't made much sense for him". That's bad on many levels : +</I>>><i>  - difficult to find for a new user. +</I>>><i>  - asking to type command as root first, and later "click on a link in your browser and type after your +</I>>><i> admin password", which is IMHO quite bad from giving wrong habits to people. +</I>>><i>  - asking lots of questions, ( fixed later by using a simplified mode, that use rpmdrake or +</I>>><i> that fail silently ) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +1 for these. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Since the discoverability issue should be fixed by simply having tainted disabled by default and maybe +</I>>><i> some popup whatever to enable it, I see no reason to suffer from the others problems ( +</I>>><i> bad habits, power struggle ). People can install a clone of easyurpmi if they want, but I will +</I>>><i> oppose on having it on our servers, on having anything like this labelled as official, and +</I>>><i> would recommend to people to not deploy it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Maybe have a page that explains on how to use e.g. +</I>><i> '''Open "configure media sources for install and update" -> File -> Add +</I>><i> a specific media mirror''' +</I>><i> as pointed by Ahmad (in addition to the default "add" which adds +</I>><i> mirrorlist medias). I for one didn't know this option even existed... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Anssi Hannula +</I>><i> +</I> +I added it to the mdv wiki[1] about 1-2years ago. + +[1]<A HREF="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software#Adding_a_specific_Media_Mirror">http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software#Adding_a_specific_Media_Mirror</A> + +I am not sure if this page got imported in the Mageia wiki or not +(probably not yet). + +-- +Ahmad Samir +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="004352.html">[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="004354.html">[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#4353">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#4353">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#4353">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#4353">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |