i just install ydl 4

Norberto Quintanar nquintanar at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 22 14:17:17 MST 2004


--- Andrew <virgule88 at videotron.il.us> wrote:
> Its clear you are disappointed, heh? But what's your points?
> 1- No GUI package installer
> 2- XMMS is not included
> 
> <sarcasm>
> Big Deal! We're all screwed!
> </sarcasm>
> 
> You provided us with some negative opinions now I will destroy them
> two:
> 
> 1- You qualify Synaptic as >the easiest way to install you app>. It
> really is just a GUI front-end for apt. It work like this: Open
> Synaptic, browse a tedious list of app, select it then click
> 'install'
> (that will actually run apt in background) button? 
> With yum: <yum install app> Thats it, thats all.
> 
> 2- XMMS is not there. The ppc.rpms are still available from version
> 3
> (xmms-1.2.7-13c.ppc.rpm) Would you like the newest version?
> (1.2.10)
> Then, all you need is to download the tarball and do: <rpmbuild -ta
> xmms-1.2.10.tar.gz>
> 
> Its easy to whine about this is that "not being like I want". I
> challenge you to de better (YDL team) AND make it publicly
> available for
> FREE (as in free of charge) first then such complain could have
> some
> value and credibility to me. I have a clue how much Apple is
> restrictive
> about the reverent information/data they provide to YDL for them to
> make
> things work (sound on G5, AirPort Extreme anyone?). Second, since
> Terra
> Soft Solution are the ONLY Apple-authorized vendor/distributor to
> sell
> Apple hardware with a non-Apple OS pre-installed, I think its safe
> to
> say they won't risk this (alliance?) doing stuffs like reverse
> engineering drivers to get things to work.
> 
> Thats how I see it.
> -Andrew

Word!  You're so on the money Andrew.  Take a bow!


		
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