Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-27 Thread Eric Fernandez
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Good idea was rather refering to showing installed software in searches, not specifically to providing a checkbox option for it. And I said I think best solution would be to do it by default. Why not doing a browse packages interface, independent from any

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-27 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le jeu 26/06/2003 à 10:09, Eric Fernandez a écrit : But actually the solution to make rpmdrake installer search in installed by default is, finally, exactly what rpmdrake 1 was doing !! You will have both installed and to-be-installed packages in the same search list ! The point was : why

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-27 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le jeu 26/06/2003 à 10:09, Eric Fernandez a écrit : True. On top of that we can think a little bit about rpmdrake and linux system. With linux user can't easily install an app if the app is : 1°/ a package that requires

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-27 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, why not having rpmdrake-1 back? :)) :) But actually the solution to make rpmdrake installer search in installed by default is, finally, exactly what rpmdrake 1 was doing !! You will have both installed and to-be-installed exactly, I don't

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-27 Thread Eric Fernandez
PS : please, no one, no offense, but I'm becoming rather tired to discuss that point again and again. I think points are clear, enough time has been lost on that, and we now have other interesting subjects to discuss. No offense taken, fair answer :) Do the changes, and we

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:16, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: True. On top of that we can think a little bit about rpmdrake and linux system. With linux user can't easily install an app if the app is : 1°/ a package that requires others libs ? That's exactly what rpmdrake is for. 2°/ not a rpm

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (utilizing user input). I personally believe this was a decision handed down from management (ergonomics team) and not a developer's decision; which I stand ready to be corrected on this from Buchan, GC, or whomever else may have better historic info.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -It would be nice if by default rpmdrake would show software that is installed. IMHO, there should be an options dialog, which has things like show installed software in searches. It's a good idea[1] but I still don't see how to integrate well an

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-24 Thread Eric Fernandez
-It would be nice if by default rpmdrake would show software that is installed. IMHO, there should be an options dialog, which has things like show installed software in searches. It's a good idea[1] but I still don't see how to integrate well an options dialog. I don't want to add a menubar

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-24 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le mar 24/06/2003 à 11:15, Eric Fernandez a écrit : Why not doing a browse packages interface, independent from any install/uninstall consideration, with all information we can find in the install rpmdrake. And then depending on the fact the package is already installed or not, there would be

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-22 Thread Simon Oosthoek
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:02:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: mandrakeclub (or do a telephone poll for registered users, but that will be more expensive). I don't like mandrakeclub much. why? This is ofcourse a bit oftopic. But club

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 02:49 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: This is absolutely correct. Looking to the outside world only to interfaces are somewhat comparable to rpmdrake-1.4-alike. Correct again. Look at Windows 98SR2 at the software Add/Remove Programs applet in the control panel and you

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 01:49 schrieb w9ya: That's what I was saying ! (Now be prepared for some flames.) Bob Never intended to flame. Its just my opinion from outside the discussion. Steffen

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 01:38 schrieb Pierre Jarillon: Le Samedi 21 Juin 2003 00:39, Steffen Barszus a écrit : 1) synaptic - ( a newer screenshot from debian-3.0 : http://linuxinstall.org/screenshots/release-3.0/synaptic.jpg) It is for softwaremanagment , includes as far

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed * software

2003-06-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:37, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:54, Adam Williamson wrote: No, Lyvim. For everyone else on this list, this is a simple practical matter of what is the best way for rpmdrake to function. No-one on this list, to the best of my knowledge, being an

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 06:44, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Without getting too many feathers ruffled, it does seem to me that enhancement requests seem to fall on deaf ears. I have tried other distros and Mandrake is the best, so

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 00:38, w9ya wrote: Well the issues you are talking about : package management and query have little to nothing to do with the actual installation process in ANY operating system from a user's standpoint. So I think the real issue we have been talking about is NOT

Re: double-clicking on files directly from CD's [was: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software]

2003-06-20 Thread Michael Scherer
IMO the kernel should ignore unrecognized options instead of failing not sure of that, if i have an option that has a meaning, and it changes name (for whatever reason) I'd like to be notified early, not having to hunt problem for an option that was ignored. the kernel should ignore,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-20 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:50 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: So packages on a CD don't count? Again, I do agree that users should be able to see what software is installed, but -kpackage does do this, as does gnorpm (if it will currently

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed * software

2003-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 18:04, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: It is pretty well perceived by the general population, from what I see, that rpmdrake was redesigned for beginners. The fact that the decision had a rationale or the fact that the decision was acted on are not facts that are in dispute. The

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Greg Meyer
Forward to Cooker. I did it again. On Friday 20 June 2003 12:38 am, w9ya wrote: Well the issues you are talking about : package management and query have little to nothing to do with the actual installation process in ANY operating system from a user's standpoint. So I think the real

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-20 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 10:50 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I think it is interesting that some think it is easier as two, while others find it easier as one. Personally I never use it since urpmi is my best freind now Oh yeah, teach them

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:54, Adam Williamson wrote: No, Lyvim. For everyone else on this list, this is a simple practical matter of what is the best way for rpmdrake to function. No-one on this list, to the best of my knowledge, being an automaton, we all inevitably have different ideas on

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:50 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: quote who=w9ya On Wednesday 18 June 2003 04:27 am, Buchan Milne wrote: find it easier as one. Personally I never use it since urpmi is my best freind now Oh yeah, teach them urmpi and command line...lol. Did Greg even

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Friday 20 June 2003 08:02 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Forward to Cooker. I did it again. On Friday 20 June 2003 12:38 am, w9ya wrote: Well the issues you are talking about : package management and query have little to nothing to do with the actual installation process in ANY operating

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
Well the issues you are talking about : package management and query have little to nothing to do with the actual installation process in ANY operating system from a user's standpoint. So I think the real issue we have been talking about is NOT installation at all. But the rpm-drake stuff

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Friday 20 June 2003 03:18 am, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:50 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: So packages on a CD don't count? Again, I do agree that users should be able to see what software is installed, but

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Friday 20 June 2003 03:18 am, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:50 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: So packages on a CD don't count? Again, I do agree that users should be able to see what software is installed, but

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:50 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: quote who=w9ya On Wednesday 18 June 2003 04:27 am, Buchan Milne wrote: find it easier as one. Personally I never use it since urpmi is my best freind now Oh yeah, teach them urmpi and command line...lol. Did Greg even

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Friday 20 June 2003 08:02 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Forward to Cooker. I did it again. On Friday 20 June 2003 12:38 am, w9ya wrote: Well the issues you are talking about : package management and query have little to nothing to do with the actual installation process in ANY operating

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed * software

2003-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:37, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: It was never a simple matter because it involved the public at large, it *is* a free public debate involving history and different ideas about the best way for rpmdrake to function, and the fact that we all have different ideas on this subject

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:50, w9ya wrote: I *AM* saying that a user watching me install could easily think it was too hard. And I will maintain that having to hit all these damn buttons, in the right order, to use the rpmdrake tool to find, get, and then install a program is MUCH

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Fri Jun 20 11:22 -0500, w9ya wrote: Finally; and I cannot be any more specific that this. Why not make a better tool than Windows has, so new users can clearly see a superiority right off the bat. Make it gui and play in their world -view. The beauty of Open Source and Free Software is

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Friday 20 June 2003 12:22 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:50, w9ya wrote: I *AM* saying that a user watching me install could easily think it was too hard. And I will maintain that having to hit all these damn buttons, in the right order, to use the rpmdrake

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
On Friday 20 June 2003 12:56 pm, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Fri Jun 20 11:22 -0500, w9ya wrote: Finally; and I cannot be any more specific that this. Why not make a better tool than Windows has, so new users can clearly see a superiority right off the bat. Make it gui and play in their world

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-20 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: On Friday 20 June 2003 03:18 am, Buchan Milne wrote: In summary - -the fact that some people here find urpmi more convenient doens't mean we think newbies should use it, but it means we don't use rpmdrake much - -Windows isn't much

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-20 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: On Friday 20 June 2003 12:22 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: Now that is very funny. There aren't any bad Mandrake rpms. and just not possible to create one eh ? Not without being spammed to death ;-) (I get more spam from rpm-bots than

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Buchan Milne: [... UI review ] SuSE - I haven't used SuSE much, and can't find a screenshot now ... Here I can help out. http://www.suse.de/~sh/YaST2-Package-Manager/screen-shots.html .This is from SuSE 8.1 as far as I understood.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Michael Scherer
well, can you place your document on the wiki ? Synaptic http://distro.conectiva.com.br/prjs/synaptic/filter.jpg (I don't know how recent this is ...) very very old :) Ok, even for a pretty advanced user, this is serisously complicated, and overly so (IMHO). The UI toolkit is

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-20 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Buchan Milne: [... UI review ] SuSE - I haven't used SuSE much, and can't find a screenshot now ... Here I can help out.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -It would be nice if by default rpmdrake would show software that is installed. IMHO, there should be an options dialog, which has things like show installed software in searches. It's a good idea[1] but I still don't see how to integrate well an options

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, if anything constructive is going to come from this, someone needs to put this somewhere where it won't be forgotten, either in a wiki of some description (cooker?) or in bugzilla (BTW, this is one of my issues with hugs discussions on cooker, they

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 21:36 schrieb Buchan Milne: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Buchan Milne: [... UI review ] SuSE 8.1 as far as I understood. (http://lwn.net/Articles/10061/) Thanks. IMHO,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Samedi 21 Juin 2003 00:39, Steffen Barszus a écrit : 1) synaptic - ( a newer screenshot from debian-3.0 : http://linuxinstall.org/screenshots/release-3.0/synaptic.jpg) It is for softwaremanagment , includes as far as I can see source managment and looks very powerfull to me.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread w9ya
That's what I was saying ! (Now be prepared for some flames.) Bob On Friday 20 June 2003 05:39 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 21:36 schrieb Buchan Milne: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 20:26

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:39, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 21:36 schrieb Buchan Milne: IMHO, the fact that you need 17 screenshots says enough about it's complexity, and although there seem to be some nice features (disk-free-space meter and it seems to be able to show

RE: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1)
] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:14, Tom Brinkman wrote: Ya know LX, IMO, you're gettin way out'a line. First the prime motivation for many join'n the Club

RE: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 15:43, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: Without getting too many feathers ruffled, it does seem to me that enhancement requests seem to fall on deaf ears. I have tried other distros and Mandrake is the best, so I'm willing to give my time, talent, and opinion on

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2003, 12:51:48 Uhr MET, schrieb FACORAT Fabrice: Now I just want to make an assumption : users should not have access to package file list or at least for core or important or server software. To my mind it is a security risk as users doesn't need to knwo where they are.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Didier Herisson
Le Mercredi 18 Juin 2003 20.05, Bellegarde Cédric a écrit : I think that urpmi need to introduce meta-package like we have on debian with apt... For exemple, it will be cool to do an urpmi kde to install all kde package or an urpmi Xwindow, urpmi gnome, ... I agree with that ! And rpmdrake

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-19 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bellegarde Cédric wrote: I think that urpmi need to introduce meta-package like we have on debian with apt... For exemple, it will be cool to do an urpmi kde to install all kde package or an urpmi Xwindow, urpmi gnome, ... $ urpmq -i gnome2

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-19 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Didier Herisson wrote: I agree with that ! And rpmdrake should then also have a classification by meta-package, allowing to add or remove some applications in those families. It's already what is done during the install process, isn'it ? Do

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Didier Herisson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Mercredi 18 Juin 2003 20.05, Bellegarde Cédric a écrit : I think that urpmi need to introduce meta-package like we have on debian with apt... For exemple, it will be cool to do an urpmi kde to install all kde package or an urpmi Xwindow,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
FACORAT Fabrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le mar 17/06/2003 à 22:10, andre a écrit : On Tuesday 17 June 2003 22:21, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Argh. another addition to the GUI.. More like rpmdrake and rpmdrake-remove are just not the right tool for non-root users to select

double-clicking on files directly from CD's [was: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software]

2003-06-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, double clicking on an rpm on a CD still gives some problem Because of Windows-only CD that leads to all files being executable? I have a suggestion for that, because I've been dealing with fixing a similar problem for a friend of

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed * software

2003-06-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Without getting too many feathers ruffled, it does seem to me that enhancement requests seem to fall on deaf ears. I have tried other distros and Mandrake is the best, so I'm willing to give my time, talent, and opinion on the matter.

Re: double-clicking on files directly from CD's [was: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software]

2003-06-19 Thread Pixel
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel do you think we can add mode=0644 for cd and dvd drives, in the install, with the above mentioned addition in mount.c? no pb. IMO the kernel should ignore unrecognized options instead of failing

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread andre
The security problem only exist if you couldn't get that information in another way. But i don't think that is the case seeing that only /usr/sbin/glibc-post-upgrade isn't readable on my system as normal user.

Re: double-clicking on files directly from CD's [was: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software]

2003-06-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel do you think we can add mode=0644 for cd and dvd drives, in the install, with the above mentioned addition in mount.c? no pb. IMO the kernel should ignore unrecognized options instead of failing

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread andre
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 11:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Buchan's suggestion was not for selecting rpm's, it was for allowing non-root users to browse, so that afterwards they can request software installation to the machine's administrator. For which rpmdrake is totally inappropriate. For

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le jeu 19/06/2003 à 10:19, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : FACORAT Fabrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le mar 17/06/2003 à 22:10, andre a écrit : On Tuesday 17 June 2003 22:21, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Argh. another addition to the GUI.. More like rpmdrake and

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-19 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le jeu 19/06/2003 à 07:08, Götz Waschk a écrit : Am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2003, 12:51:48 Uhr MET, schrieb FACORAT Fabrice: Now I just want to make an assumption : users should not have access to package file list or at least for core or important or server software. To my mind it is a security

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-19 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andre wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2003 11:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Buchan's suggestion was not for selecting rpm's, it was for allowing non-root users to browse, so that afterwards they can request software installation to the machine's

Re: double-clicking on files directly from CD's [was: Re: [Cooker]rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software]

2003-06-19 Thread Luca Berra
Pixel wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel do you think we can add mode=0644 for cd and dvd drives, in the install, with the above mentioned addition in mount.c? no pb. IMO the kernel should ignore unrecognized options instead of failing not sure of that, if i have

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread andre
On Thursday 19 June 2003 18:08, Buchan Milne wrote: andre wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2003 11:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Buchan's suggestion was not for selecting rpm's, it was for allowing non-root users to browse, so that afterwards they can request software installation to the

Re: double-clicking on files directly from CD's [was: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software]

2003-06-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Luca Berra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMO the kernel should ignore unrecognized options instead of failing not sure of that, if i have an option that has a meaning, and it changes name (for whatever reason) I'd like to be notified early, not having to hunt problem for an option that was

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread w9ya
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 04:27 am, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 10:50 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I think it is interesting that some think it is easier as two, while others find it easier as one. Personally I never

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Buchan Milne
quote who=w9ya On Wednesday 18 June 2003 04:27 am, Buchan Milne wrote: find it easier as one. Personally I never use it since urpmi is my best freind now Oh yeah, teach them urmpi and command line...lol. Did Greg even vaguely suggest anyone else should use urpmi? Please, if you don't

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread w9ya
On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:50 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: quote who=w9ya On Wednesday 18 June 2003 04:27 am, Buchan Milne wrote: find it easier as one. Personally I never use it since urpmi is my best freind now Oh yeah, teach them urmpi and command line...lol. Did Greg even

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 19 June 2003 01:02 pm, andre wrote: It may not be the best example. But the number of people who can't find k3d in rpmdrake because it already installed is definitely non-zero I know people that didn't know it was installed, so they downloaded it and built it from source. In

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 06:44, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Without getting too many feathers ruffled, it does seem to me that enhancement requests seem to fall on deaf ears. I have tried other distros and Mandrake is the best, so

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Greg Meyer
Forwarding to cooker since I sent it to w9ya personally in error. This happened because I was forgetful and did not workaround his reply-to settings as he requested. On Thursday 19 June 2003 05:29 pm, w9ya wrote: Or i.e. yes, it was implied, otherwise why bring it up in a discussion about

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread w9ya
Well the issues you are talking about : package management and query have little to nothing to do with the actual installation process in ANY operating system from a user's standpoint. So I think the real issue we have been talking about is NOT installation at all. But the rpm-drake stuff

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-18 Thread Michael Scherer
1 - The original point I was commenting on was that the 'drake' installer was getting more complicated by being broke into several sections. This is a fundamentally flaw concept for newbies to take on. We can disagree on this, but having more than one program to take care of installing and

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-18 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le mar 17/06/2003 à 22:10, andre a écrit : On Tuesday 17 June 2003 22:21, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Argh. another addition to the GUI.. More like rpmdrake and rpmdrake-remove are just not the right tool for non-root users to select rpms. That's sounds sensible to me IMHO. Indeed users

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-18 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 22:21, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Argh. another addition to the GUI.. More like rpmdrake and rpmdrake-remove are just not the right tool for non-root users to select rpms. I would remove your May 28 addition. Buchan's suggestion

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-18 Thread Bellegarde Cédric
I think that urpmi need to introduce meta-package like we have on debian with apt... For exemple, it will be cool to do an urpmi kde to install all kde package or an urpmi Xwindow, urpmi gnome, ... With this, installation of software will be easiest for newbies... The actual problem is that

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pierre Jarillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Lundi 16 Juin 2003 17:52, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : It would be better that rpmdrake also show already-installed software, maybe greyed out or with a mention this software is already installed on your machine. No, it's a long

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Didier Herisson
So, with current tools, a newbie may not find the software needed, only because it is already installed. It happens. Isn't that sad ? I think the vast majority of those cases are not happening because those applications are so large they don't get unnoticed by the user (e.g. whe

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Olivier Blin
I still fail to see why people start installing software to see installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given program for a given task, isn't it? I launche installing software when I want to install software.. Perhaps to see the description of current installed packages. Even if

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread danny
On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I still fail to see why people start installing software to see installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given program for a given task, isn't it? I launche installing software when I want to install software.. GC, we have talked

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: GC, we have talked about this before. You are not easily convinced but the issue keeps coming up. If you really want to know, post a poll on mandrakeclub (or do a telephone poll

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I still fail to see why people start installing software to see installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given program for a given task, isn't it? I launche installing software when I want to install

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Think a bit further, currently rpmdrake has an easy interface, but not a friendly one. (Look at some Mac software). rpmdrake has become quite nice, but it is sometimes not suited for the things many users want. And of course, at present

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And of course, at present rpmdrake can only be run as root. If it were Untrue! This time you suck.. you asked for that feature, I've said I would add it, I've added it on May 28,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Mardi 17 Juin 2003 11:57, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : I still fail to see why people start installing software to see installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given program for a given task, isn't it? I launche installing software when I want to install software.. You are

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] But, I think especially in this mode it needs to search packages, since the admin will know what he installed, users not. Argh you're harsh on me. BTW, menu options only start in user mode, I assume then for installation, rpmdrake should be

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pierre Jarillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Mardi 17 Juin 2003 11:57, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : I still fail to see why people start installing software to see installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given program for a given task, isn't it? I launche installing

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:02, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Mardi 17 Juin 2003 11:57, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : I still fail to see why people start installing software to see installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given program for a given task, isn't it? I launche

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread danny
On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Untrue! This time you suck.. you asked for that feature, I've ^ haha, I think Buchan was a bit too annoying? said I would add it, I've added it on May 28, but you didn't even notice :(. I didn't see it as well, thanks! d.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Mardi 17 Juin 2003 16:26, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : contacts with newbies and sometimes I feel a lack of patience with them ! But newbies are our new users and we have to take care of them. Ask for some people in the street to test Mandrake 9.1. Experience this. Sure you'll be

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Untrue! This time you suck.. you asked for that feature, I've ^ haha, I think Buchan was a bit too annoying? No, it's that other times he's right. -- Guillaume Cottenceau -

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, I think especially in this mode it needs to search packages, since the admin will know what he installed, users not. Argh you're harsh on me. Only because we want Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Olivier Thauvin
Le Mardi 17 Juin 2003 18:14, Buchan Milne a écrit : Only because we want Mandrake to be the best :-) s/Mandrake/gc/ here :) -- Linux pour Mac !? Enfin le moyen de transformer une pomme en véritable ordinateur. - JL. Olivier Thauvin - http://nanardon.homelinux.org/

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 09:35, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I still fail to see why people start installing software to see installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given program for a given task,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread danny
On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: mandrakeclub (or do a telephone poll for registered users, but that will be more expensive). I don't like mandrakeclub much. why? This is ofcourse a bit oftopic. But club gives you an excellent few of the (paying) user experience of the distro.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please note, this is a development list, if you want a list for Mandrakesoft business strategy, maybe you can find someone to host such as list, but this one is not for discussing Mandrakesoft business strategy, and I am quite sure no posts to this

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Scherer
I don't like mandrakeclub much. But you like their money, right? Maybe you don't like your mother, but she gave birth to you, so you at least owe her a nod. Well, I don't think that Mandrakeclub give birth to Guillaume, so, I don't realy see the point. If I wanted to start a flame wars,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread danny
On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gratuitously give money in return for a promise to be recognized with their votes is exactly the problem that will be the downfall of the Mandrake distro if it happens. MandrakeClub users are people who

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

2003-06-17 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Scherer wrote: Now, if you want someting more feature full, I will package synaptics once apt-get will compile on cooker. Then, just vote for someone to backport it in 9.1. $ urpmq -i apt extracting apt-0.5.5cnc4.1-3mdk.i586 Name:

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