Quoting DenverD
On 08/19/2012 09:18 PM, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 19. August 2012, 20:37:40 schrieb DenverD:
explaining to a new user (after their system is trashed) how to disable apper/packagekit leaves no rational/believable answer to their question: Why do you include software known to kill a system?
Could you please point out how an app which does not work/does not allow vendor changes can trash a system in a way zypper etc. cannot?
nope i can't do that..
and, of course we don't even have to use zypper or apper to trash the system, do we..
but the problem i'm talking about that not many new in from Windows will attempt to update/install with zypper (at least until they learn what a "terminal" is) but they will sure find many dozens of "1-Click Intall" buttons which by default leave a _wide_ variety of repos enabled (which the usual new user will happily leave enabled--hey its FREE, so it must be good to have more and more)....and then apper pops up list of upgraded software (NOT just from the update repo) and the new users automatically (seems like--since they are conditioned by their previous OS) give the go-ahead allowing the pop-up to make their decisions and just load up conflicting software and kill their system..
Well, not arguing about the fact of it breaking systems, but the 'Please offer me all package updates, not only patches' was IIRC a big request, as users felt that they are left out with updates from repos. (From memory.. can't really just fnd references to it at the moment). In gnome, the 'biggest' issue is probably the lack of a panel icon to configure it, but that should not really be an issue: like anything else, PackageKit is being configured from the control-center, where a link to gpk-prefs is located (allowing to 'disable' updates). We might as well argue that 'yast' should not interact with libzypp dirctly, but streamline the entire package management through packagekit (thus being a different frontend to PK). As backend, we can still use libzypp. This would likely allow much easier integration. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org