On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:18 +0100, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You probably need to file a bug about this. I normally add exactarch=1 > > in my yum.conf file, and I might even argue we should do this my > > default. > > I will fill a bug report about this. (once i find the packagekit bugzilla) Default yum policy is a Red Hat bug. > >> 3. Oke, mplayer is done installing now and now it asks me to run it.. > >> why? I really can't think of a valid reason to even ask the user that! > >> it's pointless! > > > > You installed it for a reason, right? Surely if I'm compelled to install > > a specific application, we should offer to run it? Why make the user > > navigate the menus and find the correct name and icon? > > No, you should not offer it to run. It's unexpected and not asked for behaviour. > All other distros (that i've used) just install it and are done. They > don't offer the option to run it. Fedora with packagekit somehow needs > to act different and that shouldn't happen. Stick to the way other > distros work and your fine. that's a proven way and works fine. *bttzzt* Just because PackageKit does things differently to other previous tools doesn't mean the previous tools were doing things the right way. I'm actually trying to shift the user away from manually installing packages in a tool, and start installing them automatically at the point of use instead. See: http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-codecs.png http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-font.png http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-mime-type.png > > It didn't just look ugly, it had core architectural problems. PackageKit > > is a different framework, not an application. > > Another reason why it should mature first befora getting included in > fedora as the default package management system If you want a stable rock-solid system please use CentOS or RHEL. If you want a system that features the latest technologies, use Fedora. You can't just develop a new framework by hacking in a dark room for two years, and then declaring it "finished" and shipping it in a distro. Architectural changes like this need to evolve, and change as users needs are discovered. Users also have a habit of using the tools differently to what developers envisage, which always leads to loads of bugs for every new feature. I also think I'm a pretty pro-active maintainer, as the version of PackageKit in F9 started at 0.1.x and is now at 0.3.11 (which is the same version as F10 FWIW). File valid bugs and I'll fix them. Sending mails to a mailing list saying "I don't really like it" doesn't seem such a useful thing to do. Richard. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
