Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 30 May 2006 at 15:02, Andreas Hanke wrote: Kenneth Schneider schrieb: True, if you want a less secure OS use MS windows. If you want a more secure OS use linux If a home user does not want to type the root-password each time he is installing a program, then this is his choice.

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 30 May 2006 at 15:58, Andreas Hanke wrote: Hi, jdd schrieb: * oh... any way to make SuSEConfig faster? (old, very old problem, I beg no solution) SuSEconfig seems quite faster if it's output isn't suppressed ;-) Then you can guess better what's actually going on. Ulrich

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread B . Weber
It is not the users you need to convince. It is the thousands of people who make the software and might not even use SUSE that you need to convince. Remember that many of them can't even bother to make an RPM package. As I already said I believe something along these lines would be useful to

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 30 May 2006 at 17:53, jdd wrote: houghi wrote: [...] That does not mean that Linux can not work with a capital U. how does mime-types works? case insensitive I think. Otherwise it would be a bug. Or was your question how file extension to mime-types mapping works? Case sensitive, of

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 30 May 2006 at 17:54, jdd wrote: houghi wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:10:51PM +0200, jdd wrote: may be like the look ahead system of Mozilla. even with a slow connexion, one is sometimes online with little traffic (reading google...). At that time, using the connexion to

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 30 May 2006 at 18:13, houghi wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:53:18PM +0200, jdd wrote: That does not mean that Linux can not work with a capital U. how does mime-types works? It 'should' be done with `file`: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : file suse.mp3 suse.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v2,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 30 May 2006 at 19:25, houghi wrote: [...] In Konqueror you can already do such a thing. Browse to an RPM, click on it and then select to install with YaST. It should not be too difficult to make something like that for other browsers like Firefox to do the same. Is it really asked too

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Ut 30. Máj 2006 18:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: -If you select a package and click 'Install this', YaST must know is just have to install without showing the big window. Many users are used to the windows or macos way where you find an application,you download it and install it in

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread jdd
If you see how many deveopers only give you a sourcefile or just sourcefile and a *.deb, I doubt very much that they suddenly will start adding what you want. so anybody could do. there are numbers of packages (I remember that was the case for LyX) for wich the SUSE rpm is made by a

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread houghi
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:39:20PM +0200, jdd wrote: houghi wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:40:35PM +0200, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: You can ad the root passwort each time, if you want. But why should other users not be able to leave this step out? I click on the world and then on

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread houghi
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:31:42AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I already said I believe something along these lines would be useful to users even if only used in conjunction with the build service and existing suse packaging projects. It would of course be even more beneficial if many

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bug handling

2006-05-31 Thread houghi
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:24:23AM +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote: Hi, and yet another Bug-handling related question: I have also one. How long after nothing has happend to a bug should you start taking action again and what is the correct procedure to 'ping' it? -- houghi

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread jdd
houghi wrote: What happens is that people look for software, see a nice screenshot and want to install it and have no clue what to do with the Klic system is for them jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net

[opensuse-factory] One-click repository management (was: Package Management Design and Experience)

2006-05-31 Thread Pascal Bleser
(this might start a different thread, so I chose to keep the thread but changed the subject) houghi wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:31:42AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I already said I believe something along these lines would be useful to users even if only used in conjunction with

Re: [opensuse-factory] One-click repository management (was: Package Management Design and Experience)

2006-05-31 Thread houghi
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:06:10PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: - some packager from the openSUSE community (me, Packman, Novell KDE packagers, ...) makes SUSE Linux RPMs of amarok 1.4.1 - that packager sends the amarok devs a file that contains the data as described by Benjamin (see below) -

Re: [opensuse-factory] How to make your own distro?

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Loeffler
Hi Houghi, On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:26:47PM +0200, houghi wrote: What files are to be edited or deleted so that it is clear that it is your own distribution based on the 3 or 5 CD set and no longer Novell's? Nobody? So question one is what files to edit. @Adrian, can you help here

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-31 Thread Bjørn Lie
tir, 30,.05.2006 kl. 10.09 +0200, skrev Andreas Jaeger: Bjørn Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't this exit now? munin:/home/blie # rug set cache-cleanup-enabled False Preference 'cache-cleanup-enabled' changed from 'True' to 'False' Does it work with service zypp? Andreas I

Re: [opensuse-factory] One-click repository management

2006-05-31 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:06:10PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: - some packager from the openSUSE community (me, Packman, Novell KDE packagers, ...) makes SUSE Linux RPMs of amarok 1.4.1 - that packager sends the amarok devs a file