On Fri 04 May 2007 19:41:38 NZST +1200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
The buildservice might be good from a developer point of view, but for a user it's just a mess and it's not easily accessible.
As I was discussion on IRC with Benjamin, at least a yast integrated interface to add-remove the various repositories would be necessary to make the buildservice accessible to the users.
That would be nice. With an appropriate warning like "these packages may come from the underworld and steal your computer".
Ubuntu is a lot closer to being click and run than openSUSE in the current state.
I'm afraid you're probably right.
As said, ubuntu doesn't require to:
- remove zmd and to clean and rebuild the package manager database.
Ack^3. Pitching opensuse against ubuntu is currently difficult. 10.1 is a dead loss, 10.2 is only good after installing a bunch of updates and obliterating zmd (risky business, might uninstall 2/3 of KDE and basic system libraries, so why not format in the first place?). Repositories are too difficult to add to suse. Mostly because finding them in the first place takes too long for a non-techie, partly because it's too slow. And too damn buggy - repos which were configured before just pop off the list (but are still being refreshed, creating a "what the hell is this *&@#$&@( box downloading for the next 15 minutes?). A non-techie wouldn't know any of this. What would be nice is a tabular list of repos, their short info, and their state with tick boxes, not this drop-down box in the corner. Repo management still sucks when compared with something debian-based. Sorry, but currently it's alpha 3 so a good time to say it ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org