Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (180 mails)

["Cristian Morales Vega" <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/5 Dirk Müller <dmueller@xxxxxxx>:
> Any opinions? I'm leaning towards merging the current :UNSTABLE state into
> :Factory and enable syncing when patches etc have been merged. This would
> allow early development to start, but on the other side will irritate openSUSE
> 11.1 users (:Factory:Desktop is currently the recommended openSUSE
> BuildService KDE4 repository).

Since openSUSE 11.1 zypper/YaST supports "services"
(http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/351). Shouldn't we start to
use them to avoid this problem in the future?

There is people that added UNSTABLE just because they wanted KDE 4.2,
no because they really wanted unstable. They wanted 4.2 because they
feel 4.1.x wasn't good enough... but if they like 4.2 they will not
want 4.3. With services we could redirect them from UNSTABLE to
Factory automatically (while others could still add UNSTABLE directly
if they want so).
The big problem is that ZYpp doesn't downgrades if you don't say so
very explicitly. Once they update to a beta of 4.3 they will not be
able to downgrade to Factory just changing the repo and executing a
"zypper up".

...but yes, your plan looks fine to me even if it will irritate some users.


Since we are talking about these repos... why only Factory (no STABLE
or UNSTABLE) has a "KDE4-DEFAULT" ymp/pattern? It would be easier to
test UNSTABLE if I could run a "zypper in -t pattern KDE4-DEFAULT".