Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (173 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tirsdag den 12. januar 2010 22:18:44 skrev Marco Röben:
> STABLE: testing ground for updates of the recent opensuse version
> FACTORY: recent kde version but under development for the next opensuse
> release
> UNSTABLE: bleeding edge kde version
>
> So, my simple question is:
>
> What repo can I use to install the recent stable kde sc as it is released
>  from kde?

The latest upstream release is 4.3.4 - you can currently find that in the 
STABLE repo. But of course in less than a month 4.4.0 will be the latest 
upstream release and for that you'll need to use the Factory repo.

As you imply these repos - like all other OBS repos - involve some risk. 
However "testing ground for online updates", might sound dangerous but is 
actually quite low risk - the same can't be said for factory though.

But you're hitting the nail on the head. The main purpose of the repos is 
*development* - servicing *users* is a secondary benefit.

Of course there's a group of users who want the latest KDE, with no risk, no 
effort, and without contributing anything at all to the distro. However this 
is completely unrealistic - unless you do the work yourself or run some 
rolling release distro or Fedora with all the pain that involves.

And if you look at the OBS statistics, you can conclude that a huge majority 
of users - prolly 90% or so - are happily using the distro version of KDE. And 
the purpose of the STABLE and Factory repos is exactly to make KDE better for 
that huge majority of user that actually use the *distro*.
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