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<B>Fabrice Facorat</B>
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<I>Sun Oct 3 09:58:54 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>2010/10/2 Ahmad Samir <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>>:
><i> On 2 October 2010 21:50, Fabrice Facorat <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">fabrice.facorat at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> Le 2 octobre 2010 17:52, Nicolas Lécureuil <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">neoclust.mageia at gmail.com</A>> a écrit :
</I>>>><i>
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</I>>>><i> 2010/10/2 Fabrice Facorat <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">fabrice.facorat at gmail.com</A>>
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> 2010/10/1 Sinner from the Prairy <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">sinnerbofh at gmail.com</A>>:
</I>>>>><i> > Fabrice Facorat wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> > Mandriva tries that, with look'n'feel consistent on MCC, KDE and Gnome.
</I>>>>><i> > draketools work on TUI or GUI. They work well.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> some tools does not work correctly however and are buggy
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Better  is to fix them instead of rewrite all.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> you know, when something have been broken for more than 2 years ... at
</I>>><i> some point you may think that the best would be to just change it ;-)
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> --
</I>>><i> Close the World, Open the Net
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://www.linux-wizard.net">http://www.linux-wizard.net</A>
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</I>><i>
</I>><i> Specifying what exactly is wrong is an essential issue here:
</I>><i> - Just "perl is hard to understand" isn't a problem for users, users
</I>><i> don't code it.
</I>
but for dev and potential contributor this increase the antry barrier
for contribution
><i> - Not being used by other distros is again not a problem, each distro
</I>><i> has native tools that no other distros use (as misc said a couple of
</I>><i> emails up)
</I>
sure. But do Mandriva still have enough man power to maintain so many tools ?
><i> So, no, I wouldn't throw my old box out the window because if it works
</I>><i> even if it's slow, until I buy a new box / can afford a new box.
</I>><i> drakxtools work, until a viable alternative, if needed at all, is
</I>><i> provided they should be kept.
</I>
I do say that we should do a complete analysis of all the mandriva
tools ( drakxtools, drakwizard, ... ), and have the decision on a
per-tool basis
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