Am Samstag, 10. Juni 2006 02:46 schrieb Andreas Hanke:
Hi,
Manfred Tremmel schrieb:
That's what I've done.
OK, fine, but could you please remove the line
Obsoletes: suseRegister
from Kick-suseRegister.spec ASAP? The line
Provides: suseRegister
is more than enough. Currently Kick-suseRegister will remove the real suseRegister on all systems without being explicitly selected, because Obsoletes tells rpmlib that Kick-suseRegister is "newer" than any version of the real suseRegister.
I don't see any technical difference, but ok, yast asks befor removing, wihtout Obsoletes.
I don't need it, [...]
OK, you don't need it, but others might want to add an update source without knowing the URL, and SUSE did it like it did for a reason.
I don't want to tell SUSE to remove suseRegister. But people should have the posibility.
Putting out a package which obsoletes a part of the default package management system, knowing that thousands of people including less experienced ones have it in their configuration and trust it, is a tiny little bit too "aggressive" IMHO. Please remember that YaST does not warn the user about automatically removed packages!
Ok, but therefore I've added the description on the webpage and into the package description. If anybody installs packages without any knowledge, what is it good for, he's doing something wrong.
Let's at least wait until someone from SUSE tells us why C# was chosen here and what the community can do in order to get rid of it if it's considered unacceptable. Maybe a little Google SoC project will do to create a C/C++ replacement for these 11 lines of C# code.
As far as I understand the code, it generates a guid for registration. Why should we register a free system what most of us hate at non free systems like Windows?
By the way, nobody needs to remove suseRegister in order to use a SUSE system without registration, not using this feature or using the "Cancel" button works just fine. Until then I propose that Kick-suseRegister provides suseRegister without obsoleting it. It serves the same purpose - being able to uninstall suseRegister and Mono after installing Kick-suseRegister - but in a less automagical way. And getting rid of Mono requires manual intervention anyway, so there's no point in removing suseRegister silently if the real purpose is getting rid of Mono.
Ok. -- Machs gut | http://www.iivs.de/schwinde/buerger/tremmel/ | http://packman.links2linux.de/ Manfred | http://www.knightsoft-net.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org