[Mageia-dev] Alpha-1 Comments

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Monday, March 14, 2011 05:35:04 pm Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 00:46 +0100, JA Magallón a écrit :
> > Hi all...
> > 
> > First of all, nice work, people !! Hope all version 0 alphas were like
> > this...
> > 
> > I know I'm late for Alpha-2, but here are some comments about the install
> > of alpha-1, hope they are useful for beta-1 if they are not already
> > fixed. For the missing packages, probably they are things accessible
> > through repos once installed, but some I think they should be in the
> > ISOs...
> > 
> > Here we go:
> > 
> > - lsb-release, it looks like the standard way of versioning...
> 
> ?
> 
> > - Is the format of /etc/release stable yet or will it change ? If it is
> > not,
> > 
> >   you could add 'zeroes' where they should go. IE, if you ever plan to do
> >   a Mageia 1.1 relase, please call this 1.0 instead of '1'.
> 
> Well, I think so far that Mageia 1, what would it change ?
> 
> > - could dmidecode be in the iso ?
> 
> -> bug report :)
> 
> > - same for gpm, could it be installed and enabled by default on the final
> > 
> >   installed system ?
> 
> -> bug report too
> 
> > - missing gnome things, like gnome-themes or gnome-panel, but I suppose
> > this
> > 
> >   is already fixed (btw, I seem to remember that Anne sent a URL for the
> >   Alpha2 package list, but I have not been able to recall it from my
> >   mailbox...)
> > 
> > - this is artwork matter, but, plzzz could you put the installer metal
> > grid
> > 
> >   background as GDM/KDM background also ? I liiiiike it ;)
> > 
> > - a question: will mageia use systemd by default or not ?
> 
> Not for the first release.
> But given the fact that Mandriva, Opensuse, Fedora are switching, and
> since it bring some needed cleaning and improvement, I do think this
> would be a good idea for mageia 2.
Agree
-- 
Thomas