Hi, --- "Mihai T. Lazarescu" <mtlagm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 04:32:28AM -0700, CAI Qian wrote: > > > --- "Mihai T. Lazarescu" <mtlagm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > One of the most recurring answers for those that dislike the > > > free (as in no cost and as free will) maintainers of open > > > source packages is: wait or do it yourself or hire someone to > > > do it for you. And I think this is a fair answer. It's value > > > added to let know of bugs but it's of no use to ask they be > > > fixed according to your agenda. > > > > There is no agenda. I want to let developers aware of that it is a > > painful problem for users like me. Maybe because I was a Debian > user > > before. I have experienced the efficient with CTRL-C in APT and the > > important to be able to abandon operations when the number of > available > > packages have been increased a lot. > > I think now everybody on the list is quite aware of the problem. > > You should also consider that, even though there may be yum > users and skilled programmers on the list, no one seems to > agree with the urge to divert resources to fix it. > Who knows? Anyway, That is not my problem. I finished my part. > > > The Ctrl-C issue of yum was worse, gradually improving > > > over time. At any moment I was a lot more more interested > > > in seeing yum getting faster, stable, and feature rich rather > > > than to nit pick on secondary, easy work-around shortcomings. > > > I believe this way me and the community as a whole benefit most > > > from the yum developers volunteered knowledge, time, and effort. > > > > It depends. If developers care about usability, it should not be > the > > secondary. Use kill(1) to work around the problem is not an > acceptable > > option from the usability point of view. > > Regardless the long standing "usability" issue, yum seemed to > gather momentum all this time among users and distributions > alike. > I am sure there are lots of positive things have been added over time. Cai Qian > Mihai > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
