On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 01:56:49AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'm sorry to say that seems to me you have not read what we were discussing about before saying what you have you said.
I did read the thread.
We were talking about lack of information about problems or bugs for which SuSE has not made a patch available, not those for which there is a patch.
I'd rather prefer SuSE folks spending their time on fixing the bugs than talking about the ways they gonna do that.
Sometimes they are reported here, sometimes there is a report in the SDB - like the ntp problem that started this thread - but there is not a list of known problems for each distro that you can check when installing (during at least its two year lifespan) for problems you should be aware of and correct manually or automatically - and those needing manual action are the most important, the automatics are done by YOU already.
I am not sure I understand what you are asking for. If I install some package all I'm getting is the files from that package, it cannot provide information from the future (in case something becomes known after the package was created). Say, some bug is discovered in a package, then a patch package released to fix the bug, and that package will provide reasonable explanations. YOU is the mechanism which is supposed to keep your system without problems. I believe it is more reliable than manually looking through some document, figuring out what is relevant to my system and what is not. Regards, -Kastus