Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 schrieb Peter Poeml:
> > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:22:24PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > Alexey Eremenko escribió:
> > > > But online search is not enough, because I need to access those
> > > > repositories offline, they must be downloadble.
> > >
> > > Hello ? welcome to the 21 century.
> >
> > Could you be a little less harsh please?
> >
> > If you consider the issue more carefully, you'll see that there are lots
> > of users with less-than-optimal internet connectivity.  There are people
> > that have to pay for bandwidth. It may not be apparent to you, but even
> > downloading a >100 MB openoffice package can be a weeks-long adventure
> > in places/countries different than yours.
> >
> > And think of those users that we *could* have if we could improve the
> > usability of our products in those conditions.
> Well, bandwidth doesn't seem to be Alexey's problem if he wants to download
> all repos :)
>
> And I don't think we should optimize our setup to the conditions you mention.
> If tweaks are possible ot improve it, fine. But optimizing for a small
> fraction of our users (and that's what Cristian's harsh words really mean :)
> sounds plain wrong.

I want to stay-internet independent. Only having everything offline allow me to.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"