On Tuesday 30 October 2007 15:27, Ben Kevan wrote:
When they closed with WONTFIX I was suprised since Novell should be doing EVERYTHING they can to trim of milliseconds off of the packaging management.
Well, if they're not literally fixed, then I can kind of see their point. If they made them non auto-refresh and the repository changed, they'd probably get a slew of bug reports from people not familiar with all the ins and outs of the package manament system, which is not the simplest thing there is, I'd say.
Randall Schulz
It was actually entered as an enhancement and not a fixable bug, but closed with WONTFIX. How will they get bug reports?
Well, they (Novell / SUSE) will get complaints, reports of malfunctions, or people throwing up their hands and walking away (without even bothering to let the vendor know). It's the principal of least surprise. As it stands, errors are precluded at the expense of start-up time. It's a defensible position.
People shouldn't ever need the repo udpate since any updates should be released under the Updates Repository and not the OSS / NON-OSS Source.
That, apparently, is a matter of opinion / design decision. You made your case. The engineers disagreed. Whadd'ya' gonna' do?
The OSS / NON-OSS Source should NEVER Change.
At the moment, given what I do now know, I agree. But if that's not the case, then one can see their point in setting these repositories to Automatically Refresh. But my way would be more of an "experts" setting, if you will.
Ben
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