[Mageia-dev] Changing default media names

Mon Nov 21 00:43:54 CET 2011

Op zondag 20 november 2011 23:48:26 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+[..]
+> > I disagree with you here, I'm all for consistent media names that are
+> > easy to complete, but "Core Release Source" is more userfriendly than
+> > "SRPMS/core/release" . i'm pretty sure my dad would get even more lost
+> > than he is right now.
+> 
+> For someone who doesn't know anything about our media policy, both names
+> are equaly meaningless. If we want them to understand something, what is
+> needed is a description text of the medias.
+
+no need to assume & judge me, i know pretty well that the name i supplied is 
+not a name we have.
+
+> > imho "Cauldron Core Release (source)" is more userfriendly than
+> > "cauldron/SRPM/core/release". at least to people who don't even know what
+> > a path is.
+> > 
+> > it's acceptable for me to:
+> >  - no caps
+> >  - better ordering
+> >  - consistent arch adding
+> > 
+> > but using pathnames, albeit the best consistency, is not good.
+> 
+> Why ?
+
+it's imho and because of the reason and example above.
+
+> > imho we should be able in cli to use a unique identifier, but it doesn't
+> > have to be the name as seen.
+> > 
+> > if we can use urpm* commands with the path name as identifier, that's ok
+> > for me too.
+> 
+> Having multiple unique identifiers for each media is not what I would
+> call user-friendly. We already have the name as unique identifier, there
+> is no need to add an other one.
+
+noone said anything about "multitple unique identifiers". be that as it may, 
+from a user pov: if we have name + unique_id and GUI shows name, or we have 
+name + description and GUI shows description is more or less the same if 1st 
+name is similar to 2nd description.
+
+in short, if rpmdrake shows a short description instead of where name is now 
+and name is mentioned of lesser importance, i'm ok with this.
+
+that would indeed make urpmi commands use path and rpmdrake still show 
+(descriptive name/description)
+
+if that's what you mean, maybe you should've been more clear on this. then i'm 
+sure even Stormi agrees...
+