On Sunday 21 May 2006 14:13, Martin Schlander wrote:
Is the same team responsible for the greatest regression in 10.1 that adding new installation sources fails most of the time :/ ? Do you already have a BZ entry of this?
I think this is a bit off topic, but..
If you had tried the packagemanagement (rug/zen/yast) a month ago you would be amazed that it almost works now.
Heh, OK.
My handling of this issue is (1) report bugs/give feedback and thus help get it right for 10.2, (2) primarily use Smart for package management and (3) warn noobs that 10.1 is sort of an interim release
Sad, as the base system seems really good on 10.1.
- as far as packagemanagement goes - to avoid that this release does serious damage to the good and respected (by sane, mature people at least) SUSE name.
There's some hoping that SUSE folks will fix this asap. As it stands now, package management is mostly worthless. It's a lot easier to compile stuff from source than to start debugging this (undocumented?) hassle.
On topic (bit of a flamebait, sorry can't resist): As I understand it the supplementary repos often contain packages that the packagers do on their own time. Guess that would imply that the GNOME guys don't care as much about the users as the KDE people do.
No it doesn't mean that. It's just that relative maturity of the KDE releases is MUCH (I mean tons) higher due smaller set of dependencies to deal with. I have yet to see a Gnome 'release' that would stand an hour of work without spotting serious bugs :/. Thus, KDE can be compiled by almost anyone, but getting Gnome right takes time and money. And that may even be intentional.. -- // Janne