There is also a script called "tuningdrake" developed from http://blogdrake.net/ that the user could install a lot of non-free stuffs like sun java, adobe acrobat, etc. It works on mageia with that code
urpmi ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mandriva/2010.0/free/noarch/Tuningdrake-1.0.3-1bdk2010.0.noarch.rpm You can read about it from mandriva Brazil wiki at http://docs.mandriva-br.org/mandriva/utilidades/tuningdrake#instalando_o_tuningdrake cheers. 2011/5/21 Michael scherer <[email protected]> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 04:59:43PM -0500, Dale Huckeby wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote: > > > > >On 21 May 2011 21:46, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati > > ><[email protected]> wrote: > > >>Will there be some such thing in place when Mageia is finally launched > ? > > >> > > > > > >No, simply because there's no need for a tool like that; easyurpmi was > > >mainly used by Mandriva users to add the PLF repos, in Mageia PLF is > > >replaced by the Tainted repo, which is added (but disabled) by > > >default. > > > > Simply no need? Maybe I'm misreading you or missing something but this > comes > > across as really arrogant in presuming what others (not you!) do or don't > need, > > and how and why people have "mainly" used easyurpmi in the past. How do > you > > know? Was there a poll that I didn't get included in? I've always found > > easyurpmi very convenient and not just for plf. I guess I didn't realize > how > > atypical I was. > > Easyurpmi, as I said in the past, suffer from various problems : > > - it is centralized. It is where people fighted to get included or not. > Every > group in the past forked ( some without any attribution ) the software to > be > listed as repository for their version, because the original maintainer > refused > to list every possible variations of every random rpm repositories. > Despites having wrote > docs on .urpmi-media file on the wiki, people prefered to reuse easyurpmi > out of > some form of cargo culting ( until easyurpmi decided to adopt the system ). > > This caused some frictions in the community, and some divisions due to X > instances of the software. > > - the code could have been much better. Olivier wrote it and he was not a > php coder, and > neither is Phillipe, the current maintainer. I think that the translation > system is > primitive and prone to problem. No one seemed to be motivated to rewrite, > despites > people fixing various problem. > > - the core of the system was still "here is a website that a new user > cannot find by > itself, that will give command that he doesn't understand, and that he need > to type as root, > after asking question that didn't made much sense for him". That's bad on > many levels : > - difficult to find for a new user. > - asking to type command as root first, and later "click on a link in your > browser and type after your > admin password", which is IMHO quite bad from giving wrong habits to > people. > - asking lots of questions, ( fixed later by using a simplified mode, that > use rpmdrake or > that fail silently ) > > There is also some issue like "it requires a web browser" ( which is highly > problematic when you > are in a datacenter, setting up a server ). And "it doesn't use ssl" ( > which is rather bad for a site that give you > basically software sources ). This one could be fixed, but that's quite > curious that no one > thought of it before. Maybe people do not care about security, and about > the content of a file that end > to be read by a software running as root. > > The discoverability issues still exist and could not be fixed because of > the nature of PLF/Mandriva. > The bad habits given to users is a direct consequence of the way it work. > The power struggle > part too is inherent to the system, and this would become worst if there is > a official instance > on Mageia servers. > > Since the discoverability issue should be fixed by simply having tainted > disabled by default and maybe > some popup whatever to enable it, I see no reason to suffer from the others > problems ( > bad habits, power struggle ). People can install a clone of easyurpmi if > they want, but I will > oppose on having it on our servers, on having anything like this labelled > as official, and > would recommend to people to not deploy it. > > > -- > Michael Scherer >
