Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > On 1/29/2009 at  8:47 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> > Those who have put zypper/zypp/whatever together have done so without
> > having any practical experience of using a system which relies on
> > real-life internet connections with ISPs through either dial-up
> > connection or even broadband. All they know is what they experience
> > while working with a computer sitting a few metres from them on the same
> > LAN cable. Sad.
>
> I think the SAD part here is that the devs behind this great tool have 
> to be insulted in such ways. This is in absolutely no way constructive.
>
> Sorry: please keep on topic with the discussion and keep insults out. 
> The motivation of a dev reading the thread might be much higher.

But don't miss the major aspect he has pointed to:

Waiting/stopping in the middle of the update process is bad design.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)

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