On 17/05/06 13:52, Ken Schneider wrote:
really -- with apparently 3 repositories needed just to get the equivalent of the boxed set (and that still doesn't get you far -- Packman at least is still needed), far too confusing.
What is confusing? If you used M$ you would have to use far more places to gather the software provided by 3-4 SUSE repos.
packman will always be needed until the lawmakers stop taking bribes (oops, they call them donations). I can think of many ways packman might become unnecessary, most of which
The main repositories are on opensuse.org and its mirrors (and of course, Packman :-) ), and maybe also suse.com is needed, while the updates are on suse.com. Not including the updates, there are 3 or 4 repositories needed, when one should suffice (combine all the non-OSS and OSS sources on the opensuse mirrors, in one repository). If there was no confusion, we wouldn't keep seeing the sort of questions the OP asked. You are of course correct that what <the company in Redmond> does is far more complicated (they must have taken lessons from IBM's OS/2 stuff), but what they do isn't of much concern to me ;-) center around class-action lawsuits against the RIAA and its members. There is also: or until some judge subpoenas all of a company's computers, because otherwise the DRM-protected email evidence it holds can't even be read, much less entered into the court records. Wouldn't that put a crimp in Billy's style? :-D