NOW I AM REALLY PISSED OFF!
At first I wanted to title this "DOS attack performed by SuSE" or
"Sabotage performed by SuSE", but I managed it to cool down a bit, so I
hopefully don't hit the wrong guy(s), but someone's got to be blamed and
flamed, since this is a neverending story. I don't know if it's the team
working on WINE or SuSE team compiling the packages for the distro, I
assume it's both of them at the end.
What they allow themselves is a pure sabotage and because it repeats in
several distributions (I can remember at least the last 4-5) I can't
believe that is an act of ignorance or a minor failure:
I have never in my life had anything to do with ISDN and I don't have
any hardware for this shit and I am even less interested in getting it,
but SuSE is FORCING me to install ISDN packages, nevertheless. I ALWAYS
deselect this crap and set it to "tabu", but the first time the system s
allowed to automatically install a packet I happen to need (e.g. bttv in
my case), it IGNORES any settings from installation time and installs
all things I do not need: capi4linux, a bunch of isdn packages, formerly
even "gnokii". Have you ever noticed that even if you deselect
capi4linux, there are still packages required by it? Story background: I
use wine sometimes and want it in my computer. Now, some brainless
idiot(s) have set the package requirements so that you can't dodge,
you'll get shot down anyway. Do they have something against smoothly
running systems? Mine was OK, then I let the system automatically
install packages needed for my TV card, and what happens? My computer
hangs while trying to unload ISDN modules on reboot, and can't reboot
any more!!! The only thing that helped was he reset button. After
reboot, I saw there was a new entry in runlevel editor - you guess -
"ISDN" and it was ON!!! I'm lucky this happened in my test machine and
not in one of the servers I have running SuSE, but I am still VERY
pissed off.
What now? I don't believe that SuSE people are a bunch of idiots,
because they have done many good things and hopefully will keep on doing
them further. I don't believe it HAS to be this way, because other
distributions don't do this to me/us. I don't believe they haven't
noticed this, because this repeats for years, so what remains? Nothing I
can think of but pure ignorance. This is not the only one thing that
made me jump over to gentoo, but this is the only one that made me write
this letter already three times ago, but every time till now I cooled
down and trashed the mails. Now I won't. I have payed 90 EUR for the
shit and I WANT IT WORKING PROPERLY! Don't you, wouldn't you, too?
regards
Dr. Nihad Mujkanovic
Vienna, Austria