Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (600 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 15:55:52 Clayton wrote:
> > I think that opensuse is distro that should just works and should be
> > adequate stable. If you allow third party packages by default and it
> > breaks distro
>
> But, this is simply not the case with the "default" official
> repositories when you look at it from an end user home desktop
> standpoint.  To get things working the way a user expects, you must
> use the 3rd party repos... there is no other way.

I disagree slightly. I suspect the missing functionality you're talking about 
is for multimedia, and in this case, users would click the one-click install, 
which bypasses the vendor change, they get the packages they need but no 
other, and no surprising changes to the core libraries.

Try subscribing to the vlc repo at the same time as the packman repo, install 
vlc from the vlc repo, and try to keep it. This (among other things) is why 
it's a good idea to have the vendor protection

Anders
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