IMHO rellying in Packman having a higher version-release isn't a great
solution. It could easily happen that openSUSE provides
multimedia_package-1.1-3.2 and Packman multimedia_package-1.1-3.1.
Even if vendors are ignored YaST will not offer an update in this
case.
If you want an easy way of installing packages with patented codecs
support, IMHO the most easy and reliable way is Packman creating
metapackages. Something like...
- gstreamer-packman
- xine-packman
- multimedia-packman (that requires gstreamer-packman and xine-packman)
These metapackages could require an exact version-release (that can be
updated automatically every time a new package is created).
...but that's something to be discussed in the Packman ML.
2009/10/20 Juergen Weigert
On Oct 20, 09 15:45:30 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 schrieb Andrea Florio:
because i think any suse user likes the second option, all the "enterprise specific" option should be develop but NOT ENABLED on OPENsuse.
Hi,
This is really not about enterprise/SLE but about user's expectations.
Right now libxine1 of packman is newer and so you expect the updater to switch to it. But what if libxine1 in KDE:Backports gets a newer version but without the codec support you expect. Would you still expect the updater to switch or would you prefer it to stay with packman's version?
For me this is not the point. I can accept that any automatich update logic will make a wrong decision some time.
The crucial point is, that the user is not informed that there was a decision.
My suggestion: If it would just list the other 'newer' version as available, but discarded due to a vendor change, the we do no harm for any enterprise or conservative setups, but give the user a chance, what is going on.
How about that?
That's what was done with zypper. At some point "zypper lu" returned wrong results. It was fixed, but the wrong behavior was kept with "zypper lu -a" since it can be of use. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org