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Re: [opensuse-factory] About choices...
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:56:47 +0200
- Message-id: <hoabs09fcw.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"M9." <monkey9@xxxxxx> writes:
> First of all: I am impressed by the improvement made, compared with 10.2
> : The network is up imediately, and finds the sources without any problem.
> Net-install just fine :-)
>
> To the point: The way the choices are made between the install-sources
> are not good.
>
> One should choose net-install, :or: adding media (addon)
> Not both.
Yeah, something to improve for the next release.
> The dependencies are unsolvable, and installing is impossible...(when
> adding the media, *and* the the factory-sources)
This should not be a problem in the final release with a frozen ftp
release.
> To nerds this might be obvious, but to noobs, or lesser noobs, like me,
> this is absolutely not.
>
> What happens when adding both might give a totaly wrong impression: fail
> to install.. ;-(
>
> My suggestion is to grey out the option addon, if the net-sources are
> selected.
>
> Realy very much improved.. ;-)
> Thanks for this nice job, to all who made 10.3 possible...
Thanks for testing!
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
> First of all: I am impressed by the improvement made, compared with 10.2
> : The network is up imediately, and finds the sources without any problem.
> Net-install just fine :-)
>
> To the point: The way the choices are made between the install-sources
> are not good.
>
> One should choose net-install, :or: adding media (addon)
> Not both.
Yeah, something to improve for the next release.
> The dependencies are unsolvable, and installing is impossible...(when
> adding the media, *and* the the factory-sources)
This should not be a problem in the final release with a frozen ftp
release.
> To nerds this might be obvious, but to noobs, or lesser noobs, like me,
> this is absolutely not.
>
> What happens when adding both might give a totaly wrong impression: fail
> to install.. ;-(
>
> My suggestion is to grey out the option addon, if the net-sources are
> selected.
>
> Realy very much improved.. ;-)
> Thanks for this nice job, to all who made 10.3 possible...
Thanks for testing!
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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