On Monday 16 April 2007 14:15, jdd wrote:
Rebecca Walter wrote:
What makes you say installation source is not very good? Only the possible conflict with program sources or do you have another concern?
I just want to make sure that I understand everyone's points.
if it was so good nobody would never have used any other thing and this discussion not happen :-)
Hehehehe. Good point. But in my time at SUSE (I started in the 7 releases somewhere) the only bugs I've seen for inst source are ones asking for it to be changed to repository. I haven't seen anyone saying they didn't know what inst source means. Of course, bugs aren't a perfect reflection of reality. Newbies who get confused aren't likely to file bug reports. They give up, use something different, or get a geek to do it.
the (may be) problem is "installation" is for most people the first time step, one "Install Linux" or "Install Windows". On openSUSE tree, inst_source is a freezed folder (the one used when the distro is released)
there is no "installation source repo" concept for the other OS where most packages are "auto-installables". Windows users can speak of "download center" or "archives folder"
If inst is only for initial install, what exactly do you do when you add a program to your system that you didn't have before? Do you know of people who think of this as anything other than installation? Most people I know of still think of it as installation when they add a new program even if all they do is download it and double-click it in Windows. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org