On Tuesday 04 February 2003 04:59 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Tuesday 04 February 2003 07:22, Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Tue Feb 04, 2003 at 09:54:32AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: > > ...... > > > Well, be that as it may, did DrakX ever advertise this windows-alike > > behaviour? Did it say that if you did a package upgrade install that > > it would do what you seem to expect it to do? > > > > This isn't something you should be bitching about post-release... this > > is something you should bring up during development... I can't recall > > ever seeing any thread about this to date. To say that "updates > > clobbered your system and DrakX didn't fix it for me" when we never > > said it would do this, is not really acceptable. You should bring this > > up with the developers. Not sitting back and crying about it because > > you just assumed it was there. > > > > > It is incredible to me that this obvious requirement seems to have been > > > totally > > > overlooked by Mandrake. which is more evidence that the developers just > > > ignore > > > industry experience and do not appear to actually be using the product > > > in any > > > user-workhorse mode. > > > > Well, that's just a load of crap and you know it. I think I use my > > workstation just as hard as any Win98 user does... and it's rock solid > > for me. Don't use the product in any user-workhorse mode? Yeah... > > right. > > > > Anyways, this is something you should bring up on cooker... I doubt it > > can be accomplished for 9.1, but if no one asks for it, we dont't think > > about it or know it's important to people. Can't be *that* important > > as this is the first I've heard of it in 3 years. Remember, we are not > > Windows. Ok, we may be missing some of the good features of Windows in > > some instances, but we're also missing a lot of the bad ones. We > > didn't set out to make a Windows clone, you know. > > Woow. No please no "reinstalling will solve your Problems". I can't believe > someone can get such an idea. IF there should be a system-restoring app, > then it should not use bad design like "re-installing" to do its job. We > are using linux, so if it will be done it should work like WinXP restoring > and with given seperated configuration and apps the restoring should be > functional without eating up disc-space like XP do. (saving the index of > installerd rpm's and backing up conf-files should do the job , shouldn't it > ?) For sure a nice idea for newbies. hmmm sounds like rtfd is not his friend, and I would sure have been suprized if he felt the same way had he considered the f1-rescue instead of enter to install, and the fact it is all spelled out in a manner even a 12 year old native english speaker could understand. I think the rescue mode is what he is asking for. or else he is asking for M$. and believe me, reinstalling over a botched install/configuratiion of M$anything does not neccessarly fix anything.
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