On 1/23/19 6:07 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
re-read your post complaining about removed packages being reinstalled.
I do not know if you are familiar with the "Scarfolk" parody UK government materials, but you remind me of their line "For more information, please re-read." This is a depressingly similar sort of response, unfortunately. Someone from $DISTRO_A says that they do not like $DISTRO_B because it does $THING_X. Some fans of $DISTRO_B say it does not do that. Someone who uses both $DISTRO_A *and* $DISTRO_B says "Yes it does, and here is how to reproduce it." The $DISTRO_B fans now say "oh, yes, that, it's working as intended. Just get used to it, it's how we do it." It's a very common attitude in the Unix world. It's certainly been like that since I first got to build a Unix box, in 1988. As a general rule, I personally prefer Unixes whose creators' attitude is "oh, that is not what you want? OK, if there's no harm in it, we will change it so that it does what you would expect or prefer." Mac OS X is like this. No, you don't get a lot of customization. Macs aren't like that. They are not machines for tinkerers. Ubuntu is like this. It developers freely borrow ideas and tools from other distros and try to keep it be easy, beginner-friendly, and simple. Even if this causes old Debian hands to howl in distress. Even if it causes fans of other distros to hate it. This is, I think, why it fairly quickly became the most popular desktop distro, despite being one of the newest. As a server, I am not so sure, and for that, now that I am back in the SUSE fold, I would probably recommend Leap. But happily I do not build or maintain servers for a living any more. I just describe how the software works. If I am called upon to document how Zypper works, I will gladly learn this. Right now I am on other things. Anyway. I am not here to say that Zypper does anything wrong, or criticize how it works, or complain about it. I am merely saying that I have seen what that poster on LinuxQuestions complained about. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org