[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

Tue May 24 04:10:18 CEST 2011

On 22.05.2011 02:56, Michael scherer wrote:
+> - the code could have been much better. Olivier wrote it and he was not a php coder, and
+> neither is Phillipe, the current maintainer. I think that the translation system is
+> primitive and prone to problem. No one seemed to be motivated to rewrite, despites
+> people fixing various problem.
+
+Hey, I thought I rewrote it :p
+.. or maybe it was too recent (2008) to be counted.
+
+(while I admit it is not as good as it could be, at least it is much
+better than it used to be)
+
+> - the core of the system was still "here is a website that a new user cannot find by 
+> itself, that will give command that he doesn't understand, and that he need to type as root,
+> after asking question that didn't made much sense for him". That's bad on many levels :
+>  - difficult to find for a new user.
+>  - asking to type command as root first, and later "click on a link in your browser and type after your
+> admin password", which is IMHO quite bad from giving wrong habits to people.
+>  - asking lots of questions, ( fixed later by using a simplified mode, that use rpmdrake or 
+> that fail silently )
+
++1 for these.
+
+> Since the discoverability issue should be fixed by simply having tainted disabled by default and maybe
+> some popup whatever to enable it, I see no reason to suffer from the others problems (
+> bad habits, power struggle ). People can install a clone of easyurpmi if they want, but I will 
+> oppose on having it on our servers, on having anything like this labelled as official, and 
+> would recommend to people to not deploy it.
+
+Maybe have a page that explains on how to use e.g.
+'''Open "configure media sources for install and update" -> File -> Add
+a specific media mirror'''
+as pointed by Ahmad (in addition to the default "add" which adds
+mirrorlist medias). I for one didn't know this option even existed...
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+