Den Saturday 05 May 2007 01:30:13 skrev Volker Kuhlmann:
Repositories are too difficult to add to suse. Mostly because finding them in the first place takes too long for a non-techie, partly because it's too slow. And too damn buggy - repos which were configured before just pop off the list (but are still being refreshed, creating a "what the hell is this *&@#$&@( box downloading for the next 15 minutes?). A non-techie wouldn't know any of this.
I disagree. Nowadays you can add the official repos during installation. If you choose to do it manually you no longer need to split the url, you can simply copy/paste the url to yast installation source module. .. or you can run zypper sa <url> <alias> What's difficult about that? Finding the repositories might be a bit difficult for a clueless n00b, but doesn't that go for Ubuntu too, if you want unofficial repos? We have these nice wiki pages: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories A google search for: "opensuse repository" will take you right there - #1 find. Maybe the n00b doesn't understand why it doesn't just take an instant, but at least now we have progress bars. I really can't see how it could be any easier. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org