On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:00:56AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
Packaging problems happen often when you mix a lot of repositories,
yes.
Also there are a number of occasions where fedora updates-released cause
packaging problems. I've found if you don't output anything while things
are going on people infer that to be slow. If you do output something
So show an ETA :)
> I hate to have to tell this, but other package managers show the
ETA for the
> whole thing just fine. They know how much they have do download, and they also
> know how fast it is comming, and they know how to divide one by the other.
How do you know how fast it will come before downloading anything?
You are joking, right? :) Do you need to download everything to give an estimate?
I wonder how all those progress bars in mozilla, thunderbird, wget, lftp, ncftp,
zmodem, xmodem, etc. work then.
> I was afraid it would piss people off. That's not what I
meant. If you think
> the above suggestions are crap, too bad. I was trying to help.
So help, then, open rfes.
I'm sure these things will be implemented some time.
> In fact, why don't
> you alias yum="strace yum" if it's that buggy that you need to debug
it all the
> time.
You don't think that sort of comment is unnecessary and inflammatory?
Of course. I was agitated by Jeff's typical reaction, apologies.