Fredag den 8. januar 2010 07:04:01 skrev Rajko M.:
On Thursday 07 January 2010 23:34:10 Basil Chupin wrote:
There is a directory/repo for "this" and there is a repo for "that" and there is a repo for "the other - but only if you have 2 left feet" and another repo for "all others who have more than 2 feet or less than 5 feet unless you have 10 feet and are non-Spanish speaking in which case you need to use this <FUBAR> repo"........ ...
Exactly my feeling :)
Using numbers for repos will save us explanation, as upstream project already has explanation.
If adding and removing is as easy as Lubos mentioned, numbers will remove need to use the Force to decipher what to expect in some repo.
Using numbers would be highly confusing. Upstream only tells the story about the source code - it says nothing about the state or purpose of _packages_ from openSUSE point of view. Factory, STABLE and UNSTABLE contains a lot more useful information than 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 ever would. Every god damn body would think that 4.5 had to be the best for them. And besides using numbers would mean people have to change their repos every time there's a new upstream release.
Now I go to repository listing looking the version numbers and scratch my head. What is the difference? README that will explain what is in there is missing.
How many people do you think browse the OBS directly? .. certainly only geeks and enthusiasts. It's all right here: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories And the structure has been the same for some time, it should be getting through to some people by now. STABLE == Latest released version by openSUSE + patches unreleased/released Factory == Development for next openSUSE UNSTABLE == KDE trunk snapshots Is that really so hard to understand and remember? If it is - just stick with the official KDE packages + Backports and Community. All other repos, such as KDE:/43/ can be categorized as temporary solutions. To solve some problem for some people.
Last time I enabled STABLE it wanted to downgrade some packages to released version. Would be that good? I don't have idea, so I said no thanks and enabled 43 again (as long as it lasts).
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