[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

[Olivier Blin]

AL13N <alien at rmail.be> writes:

> Op donderdag 29 november 2012 23:39:23 schreef Olivier Blin:
>> AL13N <alien at rmail.be> writes:
>> > Op donderdag 29 november 2012 21:14:18 schreef Donald Stewart:
>> >> On 29 November 2012 21:11, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
>> >> > is there a reason you have installed packagekit?
>> >> > 
>> >> > it's an alternative for package management, (it should run on top of
>> >> > urpmi), but i don't think it even works right...
>> >> > 
>> >> > if i was you, i'd start to get rid of at least all that is packagekit
>> >> > 
>> >> > no idea if it'll help your issue though...
>> >> 
>> >> It gets pulled as a suggests to handle various codecs, I think from
>> >> either the phonon-gstreamer or just gstreamer packages.
>> > 
>> > that's too bad, it should be removed imho.
>> 
>> No, packagekit is a good package manager abstraction that makes possible
>> to share work among distributions.
>> 
>> It should be improved to work better with urpmi instead.
>
> i have no troubles with that... but if we're trying to fix bugs, maybe we can 
> start by stripping what is known to be not working well atm...
>
> i don't think anne is a dev and plans on fixing packagekit integration

It is not for developers, it is useful for end users.

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Olivier Blin - blino