Le mer, 14/04/2004 à 13:08 +0800, Colin Charles a écrit : > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 13:26, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > Seconded - each program having it's own auto-update/install mechanism is a > > hideous misfeature of Windows-world, lets not go there please. For example > > DicOOo doesn't seem to support proxies currently (and yes I've set up > > the proxies in OOo config) so it's unusable for me at work. Never mind > > that I seriously dislike random programs fetching stuff over the Internet > > to install something. I'd much rather see the language packs as gpg-signed > > rpm's. > > Shouldn't we stick to mainstream as much as possible? We do not stick to upstream when upstream habits are contrary to core distribution processes. The Fedora install/update system is rpm, and nothing else. I hear no one clamoring for restauration of the other custom update processes Fedora already ignores. Cheers, -- Nicolas Mailhot
