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<B>Otto</B>
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<I>Sun May 22 01:54:32 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>dear buddies,
I have talked about it earlier and the reply was there at
<A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/mageia-discuss@mageia.org/msg03742.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/mageia-discuss@mageia.org/msg03742.html</A>
cheers.
2011/5/21 Ahmad Samir <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>>
><i> On 21 May 2011 23:59, Dale Huckeby <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">spock at evansville.net</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> > On Sat, 21 May 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> >> On 21 May 2011 21:46, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati
</I>><i> >> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i> >>> Will there be some such thing in place when Mageia is finally launched
</I>><i> ?
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> No, simply because there's no need for a tool like that; easyurpmi was
</I>><i> >> mainly used by Mandriva users to add the PLF repos, in Mageia PLF is
</I>><i> >> replaced by the Tainted repo, which is added (but disabled) by
</I>><i> >> default.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Simply no need? Maybe I'm misreading you or missing something but this
</I>><i> comes
</I>><i> > across as really arrogant in presuming what others (not you!) do or don't
</I>><i> > need,
</I>><i> > and how and why people have "mainly" used easyurpmi in the past. How do
</I>><i> you
</I>><i> > know?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I know about the "main" use case of easyurpmi, from 2-3years of daily
</I>><i> visits to the Mandriva forum, search for easyurpmi and see if the word
</I>><i> "PLF" won't be in the same thread in a lot of cases.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > Was there a poll that I didn't get included in? I've always found
</I>><i> > easyurpmi very convenient and not just for plf. I guess I didn't realize
</I>><i> how
</I>><i> > atypical I was.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Whether you're typical or atypical, I leave that to you.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Using easyurpmi to just add the official repositories in Mandriva is
</I>><i> an "atypical" use case, not the regular/main use case, given the fact
</I>><i> there's already an integrated, installed by default, tool to do the
</I>><i> job.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Sure, it's good to have an easy way to add the repos on a headless
</I>><i> server, but I think users running headless servers are cli-savvy
</I>><i> enough to know how to use urpmi.addmedia, (with help of
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://mirrors.mageia.org/distrib">http://mirrors.mageia.org/distrib</A> , it becomes a matter of
</I>><i> copy/paste).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > Dale Huckeby
</I>><i> >
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Ahmad Samir
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