Stephan Binner wrote:
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 17:24, Michael Nelson wrote:
to find another way (apt). SuSE then makes an unannounced change that completely breaks apt, and your attitude is as shown above.
SUSE is not responsible for third-party repositories it has no control over.
I have been buying (with a standing order) and using each and every SUSE release since 5.1. I knew I supported friends who worked at SUSE, even though they don't do it any more. Answers like this and the one where you point out that we missed IRC discussions -- and where it reads as this would be our fault -- make me wonder if I shouldn't switch to another distribution. Am I now supposed to follow IRC, just to get my updates running? (Because you SUSE guys didn't supply a working and released online update, up to now.) No, it ain't your responsibility to care for the apt repositories. But it would have been *very* nice for us mere users, if you would have coordinated that move with 3rd-party apt repository owners who supply services that _you_ were supposed to supply, but didn't. (That means, `you' as in SUSE, not you personally.) The current attitude of SUSE staff concering the ZMD disaster comes across as quite arrogant and doesn't raise confidence in your work, just to let you know. Regards, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany