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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20101218/e8b51e2b/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20101218/e8b51e2b/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b724ea266 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20101218/e8b51e2b/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Michael scherer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misc@zarb.org">misc@zarb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> +<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 08:44:00AM +0100, Juergen Harms wrote:<br> +> I just found this message from Florian Hubold in the cooker mailing list<br> +><br> +> >todays update for mandriva-release-common from main/updates from<br> +> >2010.1 breaks mirrorlist and therefore urpm*-tools altogether<br> +> >when a placeholder like $RELEASE is used with mirrorlist,<br> +> >and as this seems to be the default setup, many machines<br> +> >will be hit by this, effectively disabling package management.<br> +><br> +> The server for the Mandriva forums appears to be (already?) broken,<br> +> no possibility to warn people via that evident way - maybe this copy<br> +> can help to minimise annoyance.<br> +<br> +</div></div>Ok, so I doubt people will listen to me, and I know that you are trying to help,<br> +but this is mageia-discuss, not mandriva-discuss.<br> +<br> +If we start to discuss Mandriva breakage and evolution here, people will not<br> +really see the 2 community as separate. And if they do not see us as a separate<br> +community, we will carry the bad reputation of Mandriva for the next 10 years<br> +because people will think "mageia == mandriva".<br> +<br> +As you surely doubt, reputation is z problem that can be quite hard and long<br> +to overcome as we learned in the past, and quite damaging for the success of a project<br> +in the long run. So it<br> +is better to start now, by simply being fully separate from Mandriva and by doing everything<br> +we can to make sure we are not seen as a 2nd Mandriva. And this include seeing Mageia<br> +community as a separate entity, not as another Mandriva users community.<br> +<br> +So in the light of this explanation, could people please keep Mandriva related topic<br> +on Mandriva mailling list ?<br> +<br> +--<br> +<font color="#888888">Michael Scherer<br> +</font></blockquote></div><br>Considering that most of us here are still using Mandriva, cause there has not been a Mageia release yet, it is important that we know something can be broken in the system we use to work and collaborate to Mageia.<br> +<br>I do agree that, in the near future, we should focus only in Mageia, but for now we are still in between worlds.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Diego Bello Carreņo<br><br><br> |