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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: Package management usability
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 14:36:32 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705061432580.5739@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Sunday 2007-05-06 at 15:14 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> kde...". So I told my friend to pull the plug, and it cost me some hours
> of driving over and fixing up the system again manually. You may have
> tested it, but I know for certain that there's a risk that it'll kill
> the system.
Oh, my... :-(
Well, I removed zen and friends, but I used the command line (rpm --erase
...). This way there is no risk of extra things being removed.
> There are practical problems with testing alphas. Few people have unused
> uptoscratch hardware sitting around where it doesn't matter if the
> filesystems go down the gurgler by alpha testing. Using vmware is
> useless without installing the kernel sources and modules and so on, and
> doesn't allow testing of hardware interaction. It's a resource issue
> which I haven't satisfactorily solved, and I'm probably not alone. A
> wiki section on how to test would be helpful.
Exactly!
Which is why I say that the Beta phase should be longer and slower paced,
so that more people can test on a secondary partition on their main
systems without so much danger.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Sunday 2007-05-06 at 15:14 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> kde...". So I told my friend to pull the plug, and it cost me some hours
> of driving over and fixing up the system again manually. You may have
> tested it, but I know for certain that there's a risk that it'll kill
> the system.
Oh, my... :-(
Well, I removed zen and friends, but I used the command line (rpm --erase
...). This way there is no risk of extra things being removed.
> There are practical problems with testing alphas. Few people have unused
> uptoscratch hardware sitting around where it doesn't matter if the
> filesystems go down the gurgler by alpha testing. Using vmware is
> useless without installing the kernel sources and modules and so on, and
> doesn't allow testing of hardware interaction. It's a resource issue
> which I haven't satisfactorily solved, and I'm probably not alone. A
> wiki section on how to test would be helpful.
Exactly!
Which is why I say that the Beta phase should be longer and slower paced,
so that more people can test on a secondary partition on their main
systems without so much danger.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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