Am Dienstag, 22. September 2009 09:35:41 schrieb Werner Flamme:
I assume most openSUSE users can read and hence they will find http://www.google.de/search?q=opensuse+kde. They would have to find some page with the repo name on it anyway, since nobody just knows the whole URL or whether it ends with KDE43 or KDE_43 or KDE-43 etc.
I will never find "http://www.google.de/search?q=opensuse+kde" since I never use google. So I obviously can't read, can I? Why on earth shoould I use a search machine to locate a KDE repo for openSUSE when I know that those repositories are located in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/ Oh, I see, I am nobody, since I remember the URL. And I even remember that the base repo is KDE:/42, whereas additional repos use KDE_42 in their names :-)
So if people already know the URL and can read, they just have to read the version of the packages in a repo and that's it. Is that really that hard? Or are you just reluctant to spend a minute on that while demanding more time from others to set-up repo xy? STABLE, Factory and UNSTABLE exist because that's what the openSUSE resources can provide, i.e. one for testing patches that will be officially supplied via the update repo, one for the version that is going to be in the next openSUSE release, i.e. the version openSUSE devs are working on and one repo that does not get any attention but an update very few weeks. Naming any of those with a KDE version does not make sense because their version changes and duplication is a real waste of space. If you want more repos, gather the resources that are needed and go ahead.
But why on earth should I read a long description what is hidden behind STABLE, UNSTABLE, and FACTORY, especially when this changes all few months?
A new openSUSE version comes out every few months then.
I'm using 11.1 now, and I do not use KDE_STABLE, because 4.1 is unusable in my eyes - YMMV, of course. I cannot use FACTORY, since here I have 4.3 - same with UNSTABLE. For me as a rare user of KDE 4.2 (I prefer 3.5.10 because of the usability) KDE42 is the best idea since the splitting up of KDE repositories ;-)
If it is such a good idea I am sure there will be people that spend their free time on creating such a repo for any other version. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org