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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110522/700b340f/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110522/700b340f/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2bf309710 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110522/700b340f/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/22 Daniel Le Berre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:le.berred@free.fr">le.berred@free.fr</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> +Le 22/05/2011 09:42, Luca Olivetti a écrit :<br> +> Al 22/05/11 05:51, En/na Wolfgang Bornath ha escrit:<br> +><br> +>><br> +>> My reason was not to add PLF or any other repo (MUD or other). My main<br> +>> reason was my dislike of the %MIRRORLIST system of Mandriva, you could<br> +>> get connected to a very slow mirror or even to one which was not<br> +>> uptodate without urpmi being able to switch to another mirror during<br> +>> one session (a known bug).<br> +><br> +> Same here, I *never* managed to upgrade the distribution, without<br> +> using easyurpmi with manual mirror selection (the upgrade tool just removed<br> +> the existing sources and always failed to add new ones).<br> +><br> +> Bye<br> +<br> +I used easyurpmi for a while, mainly to add PLF sources, or to specify a<br> +specific mirror when there was some mirroring problems in MDV (hdlist<br> +not synced with repository content for instance).<br> +<br> +As noted previously, the PLF issue does not hold for MGA.<br> +<br> +It is probably worth improving the way the current media manager is<br> +working than add yet another tool to the distrib.<br> +<br> +We could have for instance checkboxes when importing media sources with:<br> +<br> +- select mirror: by default let the media manager find a mirror for you,<br> +else select one in a list<br> +- include tainted: by default disable access to tainted repository. Warn<br> +the user about the content of those repositories.<br> +<br> +The main point is that people often do not know about the media manager.<br> +Maybe a button to that tool directly in the update app would give it<br> +more visibility, instead of looking into it on the package manager menu.<br> +Or maybe it should be an app on its own.<br> +<font color="#888888"><br> +Daniel<br> +</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Well, it is "an app on its own", just look at Mageia Control Center.</div><div><br></div> |