Re: Please don't step on others' toes... (was: Mandrake is a clunky piece of sh!t, and an embarrassment to the Open Source/Free Software communites)

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> I truly can't imagine how. Waiting for urpmi to download stuff only to have
> rpm return dependency conflicts is all too predictable an event here. I
> wish they'd used apt-rpm instead, which is (supposed to be) much better.
> Yes, I appreciate apt-rpm didn't exist at the time the decision was made.

  Have you tried changing your mirrors? Perhaps using the Easy URPMI 
configurator (I can get the link to it if you don't have it already)?

> > , and that is one reason I give it glowing
> > reviews. :-) Although, I would note that MDK 9.0 got far from a glowing
> > review on OfB.biz... 9.1 will get... you'll just have to wait and see.
> > :-)
>
> It didn't? Uhh... *goes to read it again*.

  Nope. It got a "B," IIRC, with massive reservations against deploying it. 
SuSE won.

> >   What are you doing with urpmi? Are you installing from some odd source
> > or something? I use main, contrib, cooker_main, texstar, plf, etc.
>
> Same here, except cooker. It just never works.

  Very odd indeed.

> I end up building most things from source, which of course only makes the
> problem worse. I definitely try to avoid this with libraries.
>
> > > Not that I'm criticising Tim for writing glowing reviews of something
> > > that works for him, especially since I don't pay to read Ofb.biz. Linux
> > > Format,
> >
> >   Thanks, Dan. :-)
>
> Do my well trained receivers possibly detect the slightest hint of sarcasm?
> :P

  Nope, I reall do appreciate folks that don't blame the messenger. :-) Trust 
me, I get a lot of flames on each review I do.

> >   Well, MDK -- the company -- wouldn't be begging so much if it wasn't
> > for the world class management team that wrecked it two years ago.
> > Hopefully they will be fully back on their feet soon. In the mean time,
> > MDKClub is getting to be a valuable tool -- special mirrors, RPM
> > database, etc.
>
> I'd sooner just go back to Slack, which has always worked perfectly for me,
> no matter how much I tweak it. The slightest attempt to customise MDK,
> like, for example, installing anything, consistently yields no results but
> disaster.

  Well, I don't know what to say. Although, if your heading back to Slack, you 
should stop and try Debian on the way. :-)

  -Tim

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