Folks, This is IMO a very "cookerish" isue, and I hope that sending it to you would not upsett anyone.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 13 Dec 2001 01:47:08 -0000 From: Mandrake Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mandrake Forum 1446] Re: Negative comments can be constructive http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1446&lang=en New comment for Negative comments can be constructive story Re: Negative comments can be constructive ,by Well here are some negative coments.<br /> When I want to install a "bare" sistem only with necesary packets I don''t select any groups and I still get some stupid packets in it. Like hexedit <br /> Why the hell would I need hexedit if I havent even instaled X.<br /> The secont thing: atitute od mandrake developers.<br /> For example postfix is built with ldap suport but without mysql suport. Ok not a big problem just had to edit a few lines in spec file and to build it aggain but here is another one:<br /> There was an error in spec file so postfix was built without cyrus-sasl suport. Someone reported that and they fixed it in coker.Ofcourse no update was avaiable.Few dayes later a dos exploit was found in postfix and an update was isued but gues what they didn''t fix the damn cyrus-sasl suport and it was only a matter of deleting one extra -I.<br /> What about devfs exploit ? Still no official update.<br /> Another thing :<br /> cyrus-imapd is included in Redhat, ASPlinux , polished linux suse etc... but no mandrake package in 8.1 (7.2 had it) Conectiva has built an exchange killer using cyrus-imapd but thats still not enough for mandrake. I have built my own (veru ugly) cyrus-imapd package and posted spec file and patches to coocker list hoping that someone will do some serious work with it. Guess what only one person replied to the message without even looking at what I have done ?<br /> That kind of attitude is going to kill Mandrake.<br /> Still Mandrake is the best linux distribution.<br /> Since 7.2 I have been buing powerpacks or prosuites from mandrake and if I forget the lasynes of people in sales department I love it.<br /> Haven''t tried online suport (since a newer registered it ) so there are no comments on that :))))<br /> Sorry for my bad English, I don''t realy have time to run this try a spell checker. <br /> <br />
