On Sun February 11 2007 7:16 pm, Bryan S. Tyson scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:32, Tom Horsley wrote:
My experience with 10.2 has been just as full of update problems, and I haven't even done anything remotely weird with packman repos or anything. All I did was install from the DVD iso, pick most optional packages to install, then occasionally try to run updates.
I'd like to see concerted attention and effort applied to creating a working package system for opensuse. This is so fundamental, I can't understand why it is taking so long to solve. Are all the developers preoccupied with compiz and beagle and new menu styles? In its present condition, opensuse is unusable in my opinion.
How so, I'd like to hear particulars. As many have written about their roll out on differing hardware w/o problems.. I am in the midst of a network wide roll out here, but it's not as great as others. OTH I have also installed or given Suse boxes to folks who have managed w/ little to no hand-holding , to get it up and running w/ the multimedia working and w/ DVD watching installed should they want it. In my net we don't need it, but I found , surprisingly that a lot of the kind of Advert DVDs folks send, seem to play just fine w/ nothing added from anywhere except the Boxed DVD. I guess anyone could do that if they wanted to. Why they prefer discs that attempt to circumvent a user watching it except on their pre approved devices is anyones guess. I know we had DVDs on the computer long before we ever bought any for playing movies and whatever. OF course the various Playstations would play them, but that is another story altogether, and about as relevant on this list as your posting from another Distro. In case you missed it, this list is intended mainly to assist folks in getting their Suse version up and running. Did you have a question as to why Suse 10.2 isn't running on your system? -- j -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org