[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 21 May 2011 23:59, Dale Huckeby <spock at evansville.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>
>> On 21 May 2011 21:46, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati
>> <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Will there be some such thing in place when Mageia is finally launched ?
>>>
>>
>> No, simply because there's no need for a tool like that; easyurpmi was
>> mainly used by Mandriva users to add the PLF repos, in Mageia PLF is
>> replaced by the Tainted repo, which is added (but disabled) by
>> default.
>
> Simply no need? Maybe I'm misreading you or missing something but this comes
> across as really arrogant in presuming what others (not you!) do or don't
> need,
> and how and why people have "mainly" used easyurpmi in the past. How do you
> know?

I know about the "main" use case of easyurpmi, from 2-3years of daily
visits to the Mandriva forum, search for easyurpmi and see if the word
"PLF" won't be in the same thread in a lot of cases.

> Was there a poll that I didn't get included in? I've always found
> easyurpmi very convenient and not just for plf. I guess I didn't realize how
> atypical I was.
>

Whether you're typical or atypical, I leave that to you.

Using easyurpmi to just add the official repositories in Mandriva is
an "atypical" use case, not the regular/main use case, given the fact
there's already an integrated, installed by default, tool to do the
job.

Sure, it's good to have an easy way to add the repos on a headless
server, but I think users running headless servers are cli-savvy
enough to know how to use urpmi.addmedia, (with help of
http://mirrors.mageia.org/distrib , it becomes a matter of
copy/paste).

> Dale Huckeby
>

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Ahmad Samir