Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> 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.
Case in point, the recent Gmail outage. Besides, too many single points 
of failure in between and if you are unlucky, total disruption at times.
Regards
Sid.
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