https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310455#c24
--- Comment #24 from Francis Giannaros 2007-09-24 05:52:18 MST ---
If there is genuinely a problem with the packages in Packman perhaps we can
encourage them instead to fix any of the issues with them instead, and perhaps
(if this isn't done already), make sure that they only have packages that
_have_ to be there (and hence push the rest -- backports, etc -- out to the
build service.
The current method just makes things extremely difficult, if not impossible,
for all 3rd-party packagers, since they can by no means really say to the user
"add this repo to get the package X". It becomes a much longer process, and a
more difficult one for the user. Most of my family members wouldn't be able to
complete it.
Other distributions don't do anything like this and SUSE has never done it in
the past; I really don't see why we should deviate from this so directly.
Especially since it's going to make the user think one thing, and one thing
only -- yast can't do something basic like package management (this is what
they always say, and it's sad), and they'll use smart which doesn't give them
errors out all the time.
A hundred people saying on the internet "forget yast" or "yast sucks, use
smart" is not exactly helping anything IMO, and is even worse because people
don't make the distinction between yast software management and yast, which is
itself amazing.
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