Hi! Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 16:34 schrieb Stephan Binner:
"These updates are provided as a free service to our customers. Novell offers no guarantee whatsoever for these updates and will therefore not provide support of any kind. Use the updates listed here at your own risk."
This is all true, yet those packages are offered because Novell/SuSE know that they are in fact part of the "psychological contract" and add value to and make SuSE Linux more attractive for customers. "Novell is offering further, genuine added value, at no cost, on its web pages: the SUSE Linux KDE service, in short, called LinuKS." Further, they are the only way to get bugfixed versions of e.g. KDE. So even if people do not want to get KDE 3.5 but only the bugfixes for 3.4, they are forced to use "risky" software. Although I can fully understand that there is no official support for the packages in supp, I think it is a bit contradictory to advertise risky packages as "genuine added value". If it is risky, it would rather be genuine added risk. As I said, I can fully understand that they are not supported, but they are part of SuSE linux and e.g. allow people to find and report bugs, which is a benefit that SuSE gets for the next version. New packages in supp for a distri that was released more than two years is really a bit too much to ask! Yet at least the packages for recent versions should be updated regularly to the status of BRANCH. Since they are not officially supported anyway, there should not be a reason to not incorporate latest fixes from BRANCH. Sven