Re: Repository 'openSUSE-10.3-Updates' is invalid

houghi wrote:

<send the other too soon>

Been there, done that. <g>

Then what are you doing here? ;-)

Mostly beating my head against a brick wall. You? ;-)


Have you even looked at the archive to see wether or not it is hard
or easy to get some things done.

Wasn't aware of those archives until yesterday. Short answer, no.


What I do when I want to go and discuss things is I post my question
and then read the replies. I then do not care about what the other
things say.

Not all of us have the time or desire to scan through 100 messages a day.


And what you do instead of sticking out your thumb is sit down and
wait for somebody to pick you up. Even hichhikers need to be
pro-active to get somewhere.

Yeah, but they don't have to pay for gas and insurance. It's all a
question of economics. People pay (one way or another) what they're
willing to accomplish a goal. How much effort one is willing to expend
in getting something fixed is relative to the perceived value of having
it fixed.


Maybe if they made it easier to give feedback more folks would.
Most of us want to use our computers, not build them.

Oh, it is not that ard to give feedback.

Maybe not, but it's harder than I think it needs to be. I don't need
another hobby.

And again, if they do not know that you do not like it, they do not
know. No feedback, no changes.

And as Rajko pointed out, they know. I'm sure Chris and I aren't the
only ones that noticed updates are much slower than they used to be. So
my joining in the chorus would really only amount to one more person
something is suboptimal w/o offering a specific solution.

Maybe that's valuable to them or maybe it's not. I know from reading
here though that people have been complaining about it for the last
several releases. I think it's a pretty safe bet that somewhere along
the line they caught wind of it.

You mentioned that it took you up to two years to get some things in
openSUSE. I'm not interested in that level of involvement. Just
because I'm not doesn't mean I have to give up my right to express my
opinion.

Great, so move on, or give feedback to the people where it belongs.
Inmplying here that the people do not do a good job is extremely
disrespectfull of those people.

No it's not. It's simply one guy saying it could be better. Linux
isn't my religion, the developers aren't my priests and saying something
is broken or sub-optimal in public isn't blasphemy. It's all just zeros
and ones. Nothing I'm losing any sleep over. YMMV...


....Kevin
--
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
Registered Linux User No: 307357
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