Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (158 mails)

[Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@xxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:50:31 Martin Schlander wrote:
> Tirsdag den 21. april 2009 10:23:01 skrev Daniel Mader:
> > while we're at it, why not create another 5 repositories for KDE4?
> > Desktop, Extra, Playground, and Community is not enough to fully confuse
> > users where to get packages from.
>
> You seemed to miss the point that Extra-apps is being phased out. Meaning
> the number of repos remains the same, and this change can only be positive
> for users and packagers alike.

Ah, true, I really missed that in the initial email :) 

> However maybe now is a good time to plan further cleanup. Since soon many
> users will want to fiddle with their repos anyway to remain on 4.2.x when
> 4.3beta moves to factory.
>
> Here's what I suggest:
> * Drop the KDE4: part and the now/soon redundant :Desktop part.
> * Merge kde4:community into (kde3) community
> * Use Backports for KDE4 apps as well
>
> For 11.1 that would leave us with the following:
>
> "Desktops"
> /KDE:/STABLE:/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only)
> /KDE:/Factory:/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only)
> KDE:/UNSTABLE:/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only)
> /KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only)
>
> "Add-ons"
> /KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only?)
> /KDE:/Community/openSUSE_11.1/ (anybody)
> /KDE:/Playground/openSUSE_11.1/ (anybody)

May I ask why Community and Playground are separated at all? Both repos are 
mostly community-maintained, and surely the maturity of a package can't be 
derived from the repo: I've seen too many failing released versions, while at 
the same time I sucessfully use so-called betas. 

If a package is built from svn or from release sources, that information could 
and should be deducted from the version/minor version of a package better than 
from the repo it comes from...

I am sure that users who like additional software exceeding the delivered one 
know what that means in terms of maintenance and maybe code quality.


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