Hi guys!
If you don't want/need to follow the development in one branch then you can use use e.g. the devel package, or leave your local copy at a certain revision.
Thanks a bunch for advice, it's just some sort of pavlovian conditioning to always check out trunk. Checking out an older revision that compiles painlessly is a sufficient workaround for me. Another solution would be to separate pkg management part from UI library. That is partially done, but in ncurses, some files not being used elsewhere than in the packager still dwell outside pkg/ subdir. Frankly, I did not investigate further why it is so :)
Things might be easyer if - instead of checkig out a certain SVN revision - one could simply order the -devel package based on revision "XYZ".
Sort of internal -devel package build service, shiping the packages including header files and libs (incl. the *.so.*), prepared to be installed in /usr/local.
get-devel-pkg libzypp [-r7623]
Cool thing :) I wonder how many people would appreciate and frequently use something like that. B. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter