Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Felix-Nicolai Müller wrote:
> Michal Marek schrieb:
> > Yes and no. "Themed" repositories are often not just add-ons, but update
> > packages in the distro. For instance, by adding the Apache repository to
> > install GeoIP, I also get a newer apache and libapr
...
> To get around this problem all we have to do is give the OSS and non-oss
> repos as well as update higher priorities in the respective package
> managers (at least if geoIP does not explicitly has the apache from the
> same repo as a requirement).

And if it does? Say I want python-curl from devel:languages:python, but
want to keep libcurl? Sure, all projects could do snapshots every time
the a new distribution is released, but that would contradict the
purpose of many projects - provide backports for released distributions.
Contrib is specifically NOT going to provide backports, but rather serve
as an extension to Factory.

There is use for both: "Themed" projects, providing latest and greatest
packages for a wide range of distributions, "Contrib", as an extension
to Factory and 11.1,2,3... in the future, providing add-ons only, and
not updating after the distro is released.

Michal
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