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Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Wed Sep 26 06:26:51 PDT 2007


Hey again Grant,

> I think what he's saying is it complains but the complaint doesn't closely
> match the problem. I have the same compaint about the "configuration is
> read-only" message. I'm using smart to replace 3 other package managers and
> have standardized on it everywhere. I have people without a lot of computer
> knowledge (airplane mechanics) operating boxes that just get irritated when
> they get a message that doesn't tell them what's wrong. If other package
> managers have more than one process attempting to access the rpm db they
> same something to the extent of "only one process accessing the rpmdb at a
> time"...

You're absolutely right.  I'll put that in my TODO list for the next release.

> Having said all that I'd like to take this moment to thank Gustavo for an
> amazing piece of software. I'm relying on it so much that I'm going to start
> factoring in a certain amount of time in my contracts to write patches and
> submit them if patches are welcome.

I'll be very happy to receive your contributions, and to help you in
whatever you need to do so.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net



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