Graham Anderson wrote: > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 13:47, Martin Schlander wrote: > >> * YaST gives no information when it's downloading or refreshing repodata >> making inexperienced users think it's frozen. For inspiration on how to >> handle this I would look at the smart -gui which tells you what's >> downloaded, how much, from where, at what speed etc. >> > > Agreed. This is a huge show stopper for the new SUSE users that visit the IRC > channels wonidering what is going on. At a rough estimate I'd say say that > 95% of new users ( and there are many of them on a daily basis visit IRC and > ask about this ) assume YAST has frozen/crashed on them when they try to add > *any* online software repo, far less the main inst-sources. This is clearly > unacceptable. > > What is even more annoying is that this has been a problem with yast > inst_source module for a while. I cant remember if it ever had a progress > indicator. I've seen this requested many times on IRC and the mailing lists > but im not sure if anyone has made a feature request in bugzilla. > > FYI, I use rug for my software management, i add YUM sources because the > progress indicator for rug works if you add YUM sources. Of course there are > a couple of caveats, YUM sources added with rug do not synch with YaST. ZYPP > sources do synch with yast but the rug progress indicator is broken for them. > After some struggling with YaST as I used it the way I'm used to I made a fresh install and used rug all the way. That seemed to work well, I wrote some notes on my site. There's been quite a lot of traffic to that page since, so we'll see what people think.
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