[Mageia-dev] Will mageia keep the bugs in Mandriva

Fri Mar 11 02:06:17 CET 2011

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:12 AM, wolf python london
+<lyh19901223 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> hey all,
+>
+> I'm a mandriva (2010.2) user for the time being . I just saw a missing
+> packages list(http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=missing_packages).
+> And I have to say that I cannot stand the bugs in mandriva (2010.2).
+> I can list some of them:
+> 1) scim-googlepinyin  sometime( no , exactly often) failed to work .
+> This is a bugs in googlepinyin input method(source code has problem) ,
+> so it shouldn't include in the released distros ,but Mandriva do
+> include .
+>
+> 2) scim conflict with emacs23
+> it's a very ,very BIG problem . emacs23 has a good support of mule and
+> work well with scim in other distros such Debian . But in Mandriva
+> users cannot use scim in emacs, which sucks!!
+>
+> 3)qt creator cannot compile the source code .it's tricky that qt
+> creator in mandriva often adds some verbose arguments to g++,which
+> leads
+> the compilation failed .
+>
+> 4)python(2.x,3.x) doesn't shipped a GUI idle. Idle is the std IDE
+> shipped with python interpreter . I know in the /usr dir(I'm not in my
+> mandriva box,
+> and cannot remmember the exact path ),there is a idle.py script.  But
+> since it's a GUI IDE, why not let someone can use it by mouse click?
+>
+> There are some other bugs with Mandriva. There are not so many people
+> use Mandriva here ,maybe the majorities  turn to  Ubuntu .
+> can I guess Mandriva users get lost ? And the package maintainers add
+> the packages without much enough testing ?
+> And I'm not reporting mandriva bugs to mageia . I just recommend that
+> mageia cannot  include the packages without serious consideration
+> (from
+> mandriva).As far as this aspect concerned ,Debian is a good example to learn.
+>
+>
+> --
+> ________________________
+> wolf python london(WPL)
+> Do as you soul should do !
+> ________________________
+>
+
+hi,
+
+our goal is to fix the most bugs as possible.
+
+What i can tell to you is to install mageia, and report us the bugs
+you see and we will try to fix them the quicker as possible.
+