Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:45:10PM +0200, Harry ten Berge wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
> >> So what is being done about it? The only thing I'm hearing so far is
> >> that there will be an update any time soon. What is soon?
> >>     
> >
> > Next week hopefully. We have a test repo online already and fixing
> > the last critical bugs.
> >
> >   
> >> But you're right about the community thing. That's why I asked what is
> >> wrong with smart. But that's clarified now...
> >> Besides that, I really don't know what we can do about it in the community.
> >>
> >> The one thing I can think of is a general discussion about package
> >> management for 10.2. I don't mean the technical implementation,
> >> because Novell has decided that zmd/rug is the solution. But the huge
> >> amount of different repository types, the way you must add additional
> >> repos.... For newbies (I've got some friends I convinced to try 10.1)
> >> it's way to difficult. That is something we think about in the community...
> >>     
> >
> > See opensuse-factory, where AJ started one...
> >
> >   
> Ok, I'll take a look...
> 
> On a side note: do you know if there are plans to develop a KDE native
> updater applet?

Yes. We even have found a student who wants to do it ;)

http://code.google.com/soc/suse/about.html

Btw, the previous YOU watcher just run a commandline program ("online_update")...
It could be ported to just call "rug"... ;)

Ciao, Marcus

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@xxxxxxxxxxxx