Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:28:06PM -0400, Antryg Revok wrote:
> >
> BTW, opensuse 10.3 demanded to install updates to amarok, in stereo ( the 
> updater thingy showed 2 updates for every program it had listed, and 
> described them identically ), repeatedly.
>
> I got bloody fed-up with the godamn thing, quickly.
>
> 6 or 8 times updating amarok in a day, sometimes installing only-one-of-two 
> identical updates, in the hopes that that would fix the thing so it wouldn't 
> keep demanding the same updates to be installed again. . .
>
> I *think* that the kicker updater applet screams that updates need be 
> installed endlessly until the next-day's-scan is done, but am not certain.
>
> I /know/ that it didn't do anything except say it wouldn't work until I gave 
> its wrapper suid ( after changing the system permissions to "secure" from 
> "lets be trojanned/cracked, shall we?", as I do after any install )
>
> Now I just ignore the damn updater, since it seems to either have no brains, 
> or no brawn ( either it doesn't know what it updated, or it can't update 
> anything ).
>
> maybe that has some bearing on this, but I don't know.
>
> I'm fed-up-with brain-damaged automatisms, though, thet's fersure. . . ( 
> openoffice.org's abuse-of-our-data, too )
>
> Also, what's with the 2 seconds delay between tracks, by default?
>
> Also also, what's with the gstreamer being the only method of playing mp3s?  
> How come the "add codec" produces a konq window with the opensuse download 
> page on it, but no codecs?
> ( the URL displayed isn't the download page, it's some long-complex thing 
> that the site ignores )
>
> Whatever, IF this info helps anyone, then good, 
> if not, then just send it to /dev/null.

Please just run "zypper up" _once_ on the root commandline to remove this issue.

Ciao, Marcus
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