[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

Fri Nov 30 00:47:16 CET 2012

AL13N <alien at rmail.be> writes:
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+> Op donderdag 29 november 2012 23:39:23 schreef Olivier Blin:
+>> AL13N <alien at rmail.be> writes:
+>> > Op donderdag 29 november 2012 21:14:18 schreef Donald Stewart:
+>> >> On 29 November 2012 21:11, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>> >> > is there a reason you have installed packagekit?
+>> >> > 
+>> >> > it's an alternative for package management, (it should run on top of
+>> >> > urpmi), but i don't think it even works right...
+>> >> > 
+>> >> > if i was you, i'd start to get rid of at least all that is packagekit
+>> >> > 
+>> >> > no idea if it'll help your issue though...
+>> >> 
+>> >> It gets pulled as a suggests to handle various codecs, I think from
+>> >> either the phonon-gstreamer or just gstreamer packages.
+>> > 
+>> > that's too bad, it should be removed imho.
+>> 
+>> No, packagekit is a good package manager abstraction that makes possible
+>> to share work among distributions.
+>> 
+>> It should be improved to work better with urpmi instead.
+>
+> i have no troubles with that... but if we're trying to fix bugs, maybe we can 
+> start by stripping what is known to be not working well atm...
+>
+> i don't think anne is a dev and plans on fixing packagekit integration
+
+It is not for developers, it is useful for end users.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+