OK, that's true. But then you should have one ROCK SOLID installer, which redhat-config-packages is not. I mean, I cannot remember how many times I am on the phone instructing users to repeat those steps of rebuilding rpmdb while installing RPMS I gave them on a separate CD. On uto, 2003-05-27 at 11:44, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > I was not having in mind those high bandwith people, who don't see the > > difference between CD ROM installation and Internet based one. > > So instead of telling them to download only one program, you tell them to download > one much larger ISO. Never mind, however, the real issue is below. > > > > > I am talking about newbies, from the Windows world, who used to have > > programs for playing audio and video files INCLUDED in the OS.This does > > nothing to do with the flavours, it has to do with the choice. Should we > > blame them because of that? > > > > No, we should help them to realize *where* the problem is. What leaves you without > choice is the current patent/copyright system. > > The reason why in the Windows world there are "programs for playing audio and video > files INCLUDED in the OS" is simply that one pays much more than the SW is worth > to give up his user and author rights. It's not possible to move to a different > "system" and > pretend that the system itself keeps you dumb and happy as before. > > Forcing end users to become programmers is wrong, but, in this case, forcing > them to learn > how to installs from 3rd parties has it has the long overdue effect to make them > think about > the current copyright and patents. Which is good. Please read: > > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/shrike-list/2003-May/msg00400.html > > Ciao, > Marco Fioretti -- Igor Nestorovic University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics http://jung.ekof.bg.ac.yu ICQ# 31079000
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