[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/5/23 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> Le dimanche 22 mai 2011 à 17:47 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>> 2011/5/22 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>:
>> > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:51, Juergen Harms <Juergen.Harms at unige.ch> wrote:
>> >> There appears to be a large number of users who are not satisfied with the
>> >> Mandriva way of mirror selection (count me in). But this should not
>> >> automatically be interpreted to "Mageia needs easyurpm". Why not submit the
>> >> "standard" mirror selection offered by Mageia to an evolution that takes the
>> >> opinions expressed into account?
>> >
>> > This is more for after Mageia 1 release. Hopefully, we will have
>> > plenty of topics such as this one, that will be discussed/improved
>> > during the Summer.
>> >
>> >> Question - what is more difficult: come to a common opinion on a solution
>> >> where everybody is happy, or do the corresponding implementation???
>> >
>> > You won't please everybody anyway. So prototype something
>> > working/square enough for evaluation, with constraints/rules you find
>> > (or even better, find an existing solution - there must be some
>> > already existing). That suppose that the need is properly defined,
>> > written down first (part of it is "what is not satisfying currently"
>> > and "how can this be done within Mageia infrastructure").
>>
>> I think I already defined the (long time existing) requirements properly, not?
>> See the first 3 "MUST HAVE" points.
>
> Also add the most important point :
> "someone to code everything" as MUST HAVE.

Of course, not necessary to mention that, no coder, no software.
But other than usual requests for this or that package which may be
nice to have, in this case there is no "Nice to have". As was already
confirmed in Mandriva, the  %MIRRORLIST system is buggy without
urpmi/rpmdrake being able to switch mirrors in case of a faulty or not
uptodate mirror (see latest experiences with ibiblio).

-- 
wobo